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Black Notley
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Black Notley
Location within Essex
Population1,646 (2001)
2,478 (2011) [1]
OS grid reference TL764210
Civil parish
  • Black Notley [2]
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
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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. According to the 2011 census including Young's End it had a population of 2,478. [1]

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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]

The Cressing railway station, on the Braintree Branch Line, is around half a mile from the village centre. 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]

Notable residents

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References

  1. 1 2 "ONS Data Explorer". ONS. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Black Notley Parish Council Website". Black Notley Parish Council. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  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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