Little Warley, Essex
Historical Description
Warley, Little, a parish, with a village standing on an eminence, in Essex, 3 miles S by E of Brentwood, and 2 from East Horndon station on the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway. Its N part contains Warley Common, and its post town is Brentwood; money order and telegraph office, Great Warley. Acreage, 1595; population, 1165. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor with most of the land belongs to Lord Headley. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £218 with residence. The church is of brick and stone, consisting of chancel, nave, and a western tower.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Little Warley St. Peter | |
Hundred | Chafford | |
Poor Law union | Billericay |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Little Warley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Warley, Little (St. Peter))
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 Little Warley 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: