White Notley, Essex
Historical Description
Notley, White, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands on the river Brain, adjacent to the Braintree branch of the G.E.R., 3½ miles NW by N of Witham, and has a station on the railway and a post and money order office under Witham; telegraph office, Terling. The parish comprises 1868 acres; population of the civil parish, 417; of the ecclesiastical, 433. There is a parish council consisting of five members and a chairman. The manor belongs to the Wright family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £150. Patron, the Bishop of St Albans. The church is a small building of flint, stone, and brick, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a small western tower of wood with an octagonal shingled spire. There are some small charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Hundred | Witham | |
Poor Law union | Braintree |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for White Notley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Notley, White)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.
The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.
Maps
Online maps of White Notley are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online: