Black Notley

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Black Notley
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Black Notley
Location within Essex
Population2,589 (Parish, 2021) [1]
1,952 (Built up area, 2021) [2]
OS grid reference TL764210
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BRAINTREE
Postcode district CM77
Dialling code 01376
Police Essex
Fire Essex
Ambulance East of England
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Essex
51°51′07″N0°33′58″E / 51.8519°N 0.5660°E / 51.8519; 0.5660

Black Notley is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located approximately 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) south of Braintree and is 9 miles (14 km) north-northeast from the county town of Chelmsford. As well as the village itself, the parish also includes rural areas including the hamlets of Row Green and Young's End. At the 2021 census the Black Notley built up area had a population of 1,952 and the parish had a population of 2,589.

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History

The place-name 'Notley' is first attested in a Saxon charter of 998 as Hnutlea, and appears as 'Nutlea' in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name means 'nut wood'. 'Black Notley' is first attested in 1240. [3]

The parish church is dedicated to both St. Peter and St. Paul, and has walls of flint and pebble. The nave was constructed in the 12th century and the chancel was rebuilt around the 16th century when also the south porch and bell-turret were added. Around 100 yards to the south of the church is the 15th-century Grade II-listed Black Notley Hall. [4]

Geography

The village is in the district of Braintree, but as of 2010, forms part of the parliamentary constituency of Witham. It has its own parish council, and is part of the wider Cressing, Black Notley, White Notley and Faulkbourne parish cluster. [5]

It is close to the River Brain. In 2002 work was completed on the new estate, built in place of the old hospital giving 350 new houses to the area. [6]

Transport

The village is served by the Braintree Branch Line via Cressing railway station located just outside the village

Notable residents

References

  1. ↑ "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
  2. ↑ "Population estimates - small area (2021 based) by single year of age - England and Wales". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 19 April 2025. To get data for individual built-up areas, query the 'Population Estimates / Projections' dataset, then the 'Small area (2021 based) by single year of age - England and Wales' and then choose '2022 built-up areas' for the geography.
  3. ↑ Eilert Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.345.
  4. ↑ 'Black Notley', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 2, Central and South west (London, 1921), pp. 18-21. British History Online
  5. ↑ "Parish cluster map". www.braintree.gov.uk. Archived from the original (JPG) on 14 October 2006. Retrieved 27 January 2007.
  6. ↑ "BLACK NOTLEY Where old and new are united". Essex Chronicle. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Bedell, William"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 616.
  8. ↑ Thomas, Daniel Lleufer (1898). "Symonds, Richard (1617-1692?)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 55. pp. 276–277.
  9. ↑ Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth (1911). "Ray, John"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 22 (11th ed.). pp. 931–932.



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