Layer Marney
Village in Essex, England
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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.
| Layer Marney | |
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Parish church of St Mary the Virgin | |
  Layer Marney Location within Essex | |
| Population | 230 (Parish, 2021)[1] |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | COLCHESTER |
| Postcode district | CO5 |
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]
