Little Bromley

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Little Bromley
Essex
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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]

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