History of Little Warley
Little
Warley is a parish and village, seated on an eminence with a commanding
prospect, about 1 mile east from great Warley, , in the Mid division of the
county, hundred of Chafford, Brentwood petty sessional division and county court
district, Billericay union, rural deanery of Barstable, archdeaconry of Essex
and diocese of St Albans. Before the Norman accession it belonged to the
cathedral of
St paul.
The London, Tilbury and Southend railway Companys direct line from Barking to
Pitsea passes through the parish, and has a station at East Horndon, about 2
miles distant from the village. The church of St Peter, at a considerable
distance from the village, is a plain building of brick and stone, consisting of
chancel and nave and a western tower containing 1 small bell: in the chancel are
two marble monuments with canopies to Sir Denner Strutt kt and bart, lord of
this manor, to Dorothy (Stanmore), his 1st wife, who died in 1641,
and to mary (Chapman) his 3rd wife, who died in 1654. The registry
dates from the year 1539. the living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge
£214, with residence and 37 acres of glebe, in the gift of David Roberts esq,
and held since 1878 by the Rev Henry Jones Henry MA of St Johns College,
Cambridge.
The Chappington charity, left in 1709 by Hugh Chappington, of Little Warley, and
arising from a house and 17 acres of land, produces £40 a year, which is applied
towards charitable purposes. 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 1,688 acres of land and 13 water; rateable
value, £2,979; the population in 1891 was 1,165 (inclusive of 1,019 military in
the barracks).
Parish
clerk, William Mumford
Wall
Letter Box, Little Warley school, cleared at
6.15 pm;
Sundays, 11 am.
Letters arrive through
Brentwood,
arrive at 8.30 am.
Warley common is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
Parochial School (mixed), for about 40 children; average attendance, 16; Miss F
E Newman, mistress
Alexander Geoffrey, Warley Lodge
Henry
Rev Henry Johns MA, Rectory
Brett
Saml, farmer, Clapgate Farm
Crane Wm
Jas, farmer, Old England
Harris
Thomas, farmer, Tylers
Harris
Walter, farmer
Parson
Wlizabeth (Mrs), farmer
Pinchon
Walter, farmer, Little Warley Hall
Townsend
William,
Greyhound PH