Little Laver

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Little Laver
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Church of St Mary the Virgin, Little Laver
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Little Laver
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OS grid reference TL547094
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  • Little Laver
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Post town Ongar
Postcode district CM5
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Coordinates: 51°45′47″N0°14′17″E / 51.763°N 0.238°E / 51.763; 0.238

Little Laver is a village and a civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.

Civil parish territorial designation and lowest tier of local government in England, UK

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government, they are a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of ecclesiastical parishes which historically played a role in both civil and ecclesiastical administration; civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. The unit was devised and rolled out across England in the 1860s.

Essex County of England

Essex is a county in the south-east of England, north-east of London. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and London to the south-west. The county town is Chelmsford, the only city in the county. For government statistical purposes Essex is placed in the East of England region.

Little Laver's parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. [1]

Church of England parish church church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region

A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region, the parish – since the 19th century called the ecclesiastical parish to avoid confusion with the civil parish which many towns and villages have.

At the end of the 19th century Little Laver's population fell just below 100 households and has since remained about this level. [2]

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References

  1. "Little Laver: St Mary the Virgin", Church of England
  2. "Little Laver", British History Online