Little Warley is a village and former

civil 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 below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

, now in the unparished area of Brentwood, in the Brentwood district, in the county of

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

, England. It is situated south of

Thorndon Country Park Thorndon may refer to: People * Giles Thorndon (1388–1477), official of the English Crown * Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon (1926–2006), New Zealand judge and member of the British House of Lords Buildings and places ;New Zealand * Thornd ...

. In 1931 the parish had a population of 395. On 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished and merged with Brentwood, part also went to

Little Burstead Little Burstead is a village in Essex, England. It lies 2¼ miles SSW of Billericay, and 4½ E by S of Brentwood railway station.Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, by John Marius Wilson, 1870-2 In 1086 the parish had 9 households and was he ...

. 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 in farms across most of the British countryside. Over 6 million cows and ...

occurred here. 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, Essex on the boundary with Thurrock. It is located 20 miles (32 km) east north-east of Charing Cross in London. The civil parish also includes East Horndon ...

Notable people

Albert Thomas "Robert" Marley, paternal grandfather of Jamaican musician

Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981; baptised in 1980 as Berhane Selassie) was a Jamaican singer, musician, and songwriter. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements o ...

, was born in the parish in 1851.

St Peter's Church rectors

Document (uncited) found displayed in St. Peter's Church

References

Villages in Essex Former civil parishes in Essex Brentwood (Essex town) {{Essex-geo-stub