Great Warley is a village in the Warley ward of Brentwood borough in
Essex
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, England. It is situated to the far south west of the county and near to the
Greater London
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boundary and the M25 motorway.
Consecrated in 1904, the
Grade I listed
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art nouveau
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interior. A little further to the south is The Kilns Hotel which dates back to the 16th Century.
History
From 1894 the Great Warley parish formed part of
Romford Rural District
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The parish was split in 1934 with of its former area transferred to the Brentwood parish in
Brentwood Urban District
Brentwood Urban District was a local government district in south Essex, England from 1899 to 1974.
The district was created in 1899 from the parish of Brentwood which from 1894 had formed part of Billericay Rural District.
In 1934 when Billeri ...
. The remaining area was transferred to
Hornchurch Urban District
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which in 1965 was transferred to Greater London to form part of the
London Borough of Havering
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.
In 1993, following the first periodic review of Greater London, the boundary between Brentwood and Havering was locally realigned to the
M25 motorway
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in the west and the
London, Tilbury and Southend line
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in the south by the ''Essex and Greater London (County and London Borough Boundaries) (No.2) Order 1993''.OPSI - Essex and Greater London (County and London Borough Boundaries) (No.2) Order 1993 This transferred almost all of the remaining part of Great Warley in Greater London back to Essex.