St Mary the Virgin Church

Layer Marney is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England, near Tiptree. Layer Marney has a Tudor palace called Layer Marney Tower[1] and a church called Church of St Mary the Virgin.[2]

History

The ancient village was in the hundred of Winstree in 1086.[3]

In 1879 Kezia Peache and her brother became the Lord and Lady of the Manor of Layer Marney.[4] The Peache siblings paid for the substantial repairs required to Layer Marcher Tower.[5]

In 2001 the population of the civil parish of Layer Marney was 206.

References

  1. ↑ "Layer Marney Tower, Layer Marney, Essex".
  2. ↑ "Church of ST Mary the Virgin, Layer Marney, Essex".
  3. ↑ "Layer [Breton, de la Haye and Marney] | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  4. ↑ 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 or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ↑ "Nostalgia: Focus on one of area's many historic jewels - and its Tudor connections". Gazette. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
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