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Layer Marney is a village and civil parish near to Tiptree, in the Colchester borough, 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 Gr ...
, England. Layer Marney has a Tudor palace called
Layer Marney Tower Layer Marney Tower is a Tudor palace, composed of buildings, gardens and parkland, dating from 1520 situated in Layer Marney, Essex, England, between Colchester and Maldon. The building was designated Grade I listed in 1952. History Construct ...
and a church called Church of St Mary the Virgin. In 2001 the population of the civil parish of Layer Marney was 206.


History

The ancient village was in the
hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to d ...
of Winstree in 1086.http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/layer-breton-de-la-haye-and-marney/ Open Domesday Online: Layer / Layer Breton / Layer de la Haye / Layer Marney / Layer-de-la-Haye.


References


External links

* http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/essex/layer+marney Villages in Essex Borough of Colchester {{Essex-geo-stub