Layer Marney Essex Family History Guide
Layer Marney is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1742
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LAYER-MARNEY, a parish, with a village, in Lexden district, Essex; on a branch of the river Roman, 4¾ miles E by S of Kelvedon r. station, and 7 SW of Colchester. Post town, Kelvedon.
Acres, 1, 973. Real property, £2, 078. Pop., 276. Houses, 60. The property is divided among a few.
The manor belonged, in the time of Edward the Confessor, to the Bishop of London, and passed to the Tryons, the Tukes, the Marneys, and the Corsellises. Layer-Marney Hall was built, in 1530, by Henry, Lord Marney; was a very fine brick mansion, with diagonal lines of dark glazed bricks, and flint; and is represented now by only the great entrance tower, 70 feet high, with four octagonal corner turrets, and commanding a fine view.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £466. Patron, the Rev. H. P. L. Blood. The church is later English; was made collegiate in 1330; consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with a brick tower; and contains a good screen and font, and handsome monuments of the Marneys and the Corsellises.
There is a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Lexden
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Colchester
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Lexden, Post-1846 – Coggeshall
- Poor Law Union: Lexden and Winstree
- Hundred: Winstree
- Province: Canterbury