Ingatestone and Fryerning is a

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in the Brentwood borough of

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, England. The parish includes the villages of

Ingatestone Ingatestone is a village and former civil parish in Essex, England, with a population of 5,365 inhabitants according to the 2011 census. Just north lies the village of Fryerning, the two forming now the parish of Ingatestone and Fryerning. Ing ...

and

Fryerning Fryerning is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ingatestone and Fryerning, which is situated approximately north of Ingatestone in Essex, England. The parish church of ''St. Mary the Virgin'', on Blackmore Road, dates ...

, and covers an area of .

History

The civil parish was formed on 24 March 1889 by merging the ancient parishes of Ingatestone and Fryerning. The two parishes were oddly shaped, with the parish of Fryerning running from the north-west to the south-east of Ingatestone, bisecting the other parish. Unusually, most of the village of Ingatestone was in the parish of Fryerning, and therefore not in the parish of Ingatestone. On 1 October 1950 some land around Handley Green was moved to the parish of

Margaretting Margaretting is a village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district, in the county of Essex, England. The population of the village taken at the 2011 Census was 847. The village is located on the B1002 road approximately four miles from Chelmsfo ...

, and at the same time an area to the south-west of Margaretting Hall was added to Ingatestone and Fryerning.

Parish council

A year after the passing of the

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, Ingatestone and Fryerning Parish Council was formed. Since then, the council has had thirteen different chairmen. The parish council today has fifteen directly-elected members who each serve for four years. There are no wards – all councillors are elected by the entire parish – and all fifteen are elected at the same time. The most recent elections were held in May 2011 and were contested by twenty candidates. The entire parish council meets monthly, although there are also meetings of three committees: Policy and Resources, Churchyards and Environment, and Planning. The Planning Committee meets once a fortnight, the other two committees once a month. The parish council raises a precept on the local

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, and has an annual income of around £120,000. The council has offices and directly employs three members of staff.

Activities

The parish council is responsible for a range of local amenities with the villages: * Fryerning cemetery * Closed

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in Ingatestone * Fairfield recreation ground, including provision of play equipment * Sports pavilion at Seymour Field recreation ground * Management of sports facilities at Seymour Field, and provision of BMX track * Provision of bus shelters * Organisation of village events, including Victorian-themed Christmas evening * Examining and responding to all planning applications within the parish * Provision of village signs * Operation of allotments * Proposing parking restrictions within parish

References

External links

Ingatestone & Fryerning Parish Council website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ingatestone And Fryerning Civil parishes in Essex Borough of Brentwood