Little Warley is a village in the Brentwood district, in the county of

Essex Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...

, England. It is situated south of Thorndon Country Park. The first outbreak of the

2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom in 2001 caused a crisis in British agriculture and tourism. This epizootic saw 2,000 cases of the disease on farms across most of the British countryside. Over 6 million cows and ...

occurred here. Little Warley was an

ancient parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

. In 1931 it had a population of 395. On 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished and merged with

Brentwood, Essex Brentwood is a town in Essex, England, in the London metropolitan area, London commuter belt 20 miles (30 km) north-east of Charing Cross and close to the M25 motorway. The population of the built-up area was 55,340 in 2021. Brentwood is a t ...

, except for a smaller part south of the railway which went to

Little Burstead Little Burstead is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It lies south-south-west of Billericay and east-south-east of Brentwood railway station.Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, by John Marius Wilson, 1870-2 History In 1086, ...

. Since 2003 the area around St Peter's Church, but not the entire former parish, has formed part of the reconstituted civil parish of

West Horndon West Horndon is a village and civil parish in the south of the Borough of Brentwood in Essex, England. It is located east-northeast of Charing Cross in Central London. West Horndon civil parish was abolished in 1934 and created again in 2003 wi ...

Notable people

* Gertrude Tyrrell, Catholic noblewoman

St Peter's Church rectors

References

Villages in Essex Former civil parishes in Essex Borough of Brentwood {{Essex-geo-stub