Layer Marney

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Layer Marney
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Layer Marney
Location within Essex
Population230 (Parish, 2021) [1]
Civil parish
  • Layer Marney
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town COLCHESTER
Postcode district CO5
List of places
UK
England
Essex
51°49′23″N0°47′49″E / 51.823°N 0.797°E / 51.823; 0.797

Layer Marney is a village and civil parish in the Colchester district of Essex, England, near Tiptree. The parish includes the hamlet of Smythe's Green. Layer Marney has a Tudor palace called Layer Marney Tower [2] and the Church of St Mary the Virgin. [3] At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 230. Layer Marney is the westernmost and least populous of the three neighbouring parishes called Layer, the others being Layer Breton and Layer-de-la-Haye.

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History

In the Domesday Book of 1086 there were a number of manorial estates at a place simply called Layer in the Winstree hundred of Essex. No church or priest was mentioned in any of the entries for Layer in the Domesday Book. [4] The Layer area subsequently came to comprise the three parishes of Layer Marney, Layer Breton, and Layer-de-la-Haye. [5]

In 1879 Kezia Peache and her brother became the Lord and Lady of the Manor of Layer Marney. [6] The Peache siblings paid for the substantial repairs required to Layer Marney Tower. [7]

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. ↑ "Layer Marney Tower, Layer Marney, Essex".
  3. ↑ "Church of ST Mary the Virgin, Layer Marney, Essex".
  4. ↑ "Layer [Breton, de la Haye and Marney] | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  5. ↑ Youngs, Frederic (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England: Volume I, Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. p. 142. ISBN   0901050679.
  6. ↑ Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/47240. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47240 . Retrieved 21 February 2023.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ↑ "Nostalgia: Focus on one of area's many historic jewels - and its Tudor connections". Gazette. Retrieved 21 February 2023.


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