Little Bromley

For other uses, see Bromley (disambiguation).

Little Bromley
Little Bromley
Location within Essex
Population255 (Parish, 2021)[1]
OS grid referenceTM095287
Civil parish
  • Little Bromley
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townManningtree
Postcode districtCO11
Dialling code01206
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England

Little Bromley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. The name "Bromley" is Old English for "broomy wood/clearing".[2] The village lies 9 kilometres (6 mi) east northeast of Colchester and 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of Manningtree. It is surrounded by the parishes of Lawford, Ardleigh, Great Bromley, Little Bentley, and Mistley. Its area is about 7.5 square kilometres (1,853 acres). At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 255.

The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin, is no longer used for regular worship and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[3] A Methodist chapel, built in 1863[4], closed in the late 1980s.

Population

At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 255.[1]

The population was reported to be 426 in the 1841 census,[5], 361 in the 1911 census,[6], 289 in the 2001 census,[7] and 253 in the 2011 census.[8]

Nearby places

Ardleigh Lawford Manningtree
Colchester Little Bromley Mistley
Elmstead Market Great Bromley Little Bentley

References

  1. ^ a b "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
  2. ^ Key to English Place Names Home Page
  3. ^ St Mary the Virgin, Little Bromley, Churches Conservation Trust, archived from the original on 19 January 2011, retrieved 2 January 2011
  4. ^ Kelly's Directory of Essex (1914), page 82
  5. ^ Tendring Hundred in Essex Archived 28 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Kelly's Directory of Essex (1914), page 82
  7. ^ The census in England and Wales
  8. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
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