Little Bromley
| Little Bromley | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 St Mary the Virgin's Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TM095287 |
| Location: | 51°55’3"N, 1°2’42"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 253 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Manningtree |
| Postcode: | CO11 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Tendring |
Little Bromley is a village and parish in the Tendring hundred of Essex. The name "Bromley" is Old English for "broomy wood/clearing".[2] The village lies six miles north-east of Colchester and two miles south of Manningtree. It is surrounded by the parishes of Lawford, Ardleigh, Great Bromley, Little Bentley, and Mistley. The 2001 census reports a population of 289,[3] reducing to 253 at the 2011 census.[1] The main economic activity is arable farming. The village shop, mentioned in Kelly's Directory of Essex (1914), ceased operating in the 1990s.
The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin, is no longer used for regular worship and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[4] A Methodist chapel, built in 1863, closed in the late 1980s.
The population was reported to be 426 in the 1841 census[5] and 361 in the 1911 census.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125664&c=CO11+2NG&d=16&e=62&g=6425814&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=0&s=1443103338103&enc=1. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ↑ Key to English Place Names Home Page
- ↑ The census in England and Wales
- ↑ St Mary the Virgin, Little Bromley, Churches Conservation Trust, archived from the original on 19 January 2011, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110119004615/http%3A//www.visitchurches.org.uk/findachurch/st%2Dmary%2Dthe%2Dvirgin%2Dlittle%2Dbromley/?region%3DEssex, retrieved 2 January 2011
- ↑ Tendring Hundred in Essex
- ↑ Historical Directories
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Little Bromley) |
- Entry in "History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Essex" by William White, 1848
- Entry in Kelly's Directory of Essex, 1914
- Village website
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