History of Little Warley
Little
Warley is a parish and village about 1 mile east from great Warley, seated on an
eminence with a commanding prospect,
in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Chafford, Billericay union,
Brentwood county court district, Barstable rural deanery, Essex archdeaconry and
St Albans diocese. Before the Norman accession it belonged to the cathedral of
St Paul. The
London, Tilbury and Southend Railway Companys new line from Barking to Pitsea
passes through the parish. The church of St Peter, is a plain building of brick
with stone dressings standing at a considerable distance from the village, and
consists of chancel and nave, with a western tower containing 1 small bell: in
the chancel are two marble monuments with canopies to Dorothy wife Sir Denner
Strutt, lord of this manor, who died 1641; to Sir Denner Street, without date
and a second to Dame Mary Strutt, who died in 1654. The registry dates from the
year 1539. The living is a rectory, yearly value £287 10s, with residence and 37
acres of glebe, in the gift of David Roberts esq, and held by the Rev Henry
Jones Henry MA of St Johns College,
Cambridge.
The Chappington charity, left in 1709 by Hugh Chappington, of Little Warley,
arising from a house and 17 acres of land, produces £30 a year, £15 of which
which is applied towards the support of the schools and the remainder for other
charitable purposes. On the common there are barracks for the training of
recruits for the depot of the
Essex
regiment; these are capable of containing about fifteen hundred men: adjoining
is a garrison chapel of which the Rev John Arden Bayley MA, of
Oriel
College,
Oxford,
is the chaplain. Lord Headley is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The
soil is clayey; subsoil, stiff loam. The chief crops are wheat, beans, peas and
barley. The area is 1,651 acres; rateable value, £3,394; the population in 1861
was 475 and in 1871, 1,397 (inclusive of 1,196 military in the barracks).
Parish
clerk, William Mumford
Letters
through
Brentwood.
Warley common is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
Parochial School (boys & girls), Miss Lucy Parson, mistress
Henry
Rev Henry Johns MA, Rectory
Scofield
Mrs
Wynne
Mrs, Warley Lodge
Allen
Daniel,
Greyhound
Bloomfield William, farmer
Buxton
Frederick George, farmer
Clark
George, farmer & steward to Lord headley
Knightbridge Charles, farmer
Pinchon
Walter, farmer
Seabrook
Edward, farmer
Tanner
William (Mrs), farmer