Great Warley Essex Family History Guide
Great Warley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Other places in the parish include: Warley Street.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1539
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639; 1804
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Childerditch
- North Ockendon
- Shenfield
- Upminster
- Cranham
- Little Warley
- South Weald
- West Horndon with Ingrave
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WARLEY (Great), a parish in Romford district, Essex; 3 miles S of Brentwood r. station.
It includes the hamlet of Warley-Street, and has a post-office under Brentwood. Acres, 2,793. Real property, £5,442. Pop. in 1851, 952; in 1861, 1,220. Houses, 248. The property is much subdivided. W. House, W. Place, Prospect Lodge, and the Elms are chief residences.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £520. Patron, St. John’s College, Cambridge. The church is ancient but good.
A chapelry, called Christchurch Great Warley, was formed in 1855, out of Great Warley, Shenfield and South Weald parishes; and has its church upwards of 2 miles from the churches of the respective parishes. Pop. in 1861, 1,734. Houses, 261.
The living is a p. curacy, of the value of £135, in the patronage of Trustees.
There is a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
WARLEY, GREAT (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Romford, hundred of Chafford, S. division of Essex, 4 miles (S.) from Brentwood; containing 596 inhabitants.
This parish is separated from Little Warley by a rivulet that flows into the Thames. It comprises 2793a. 28p., whereof 1339 acres are arable, 1029 pasture, 209 wood, and 159 common, now inclosed; the surface is hilly, the soil in the higher grounds gravelly, and in the lower loamy. About 5 acres were appropriated for recreation, under an act of parliament passed in 1838 for inclosing the waste land.
The village consists of well-built houses widely detached from each other. The Eastern Counties railway passes through the north-eastern extremity of the parish.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £14, and in the gift of St. John’s College, Cambridge: the master of Ilford Hospital is owner of two-thirds of the great tithes of 903 acres, which have been commuted for a rent-charge of £90; and the incumbent’s tithes have been commuted for £520, with a glebe of 10 acres.
The church is an ancient brick edifice, with a belfry-turret of wood surmounted by a small spire. Dr. Fulke, a puritan divine, and author of annotations on the Rhemish Testament, was rector of the parish; and Mr. Day, author of Sandford and Merton, was born here.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Romford
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Essex
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Chafford
- Poor Law Union: Billericay
- Hundred: Chafford
- Province: Canterbury