Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WARLEY (Little)

WARLEY (Little), a parish, with a village, in Billericay district, Essex; 3 miles S by E of Brentwood r. station. Its N. part contains Warley-Common; and its Post town is Brentwood. Acres, 1,651. Real property, £2,472. Pop. in 1851, 988; in 1861, 485. Houses, 38. The difference of pop. was mainly a difference in the number of inmates at W.-Common barracks. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £290.* Patron, the Rev. J. Pearson. The church is plain. There are a national school, and charities £17. The refugee Russian prince, Nicephorus Alphery, was rector.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Little Warley CP/AP       Billericay RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place names: LITTLE WARLEY     |     WARLEY     |     WARLEY LITTLE
Place: Little Warley

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