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AVELEY, a village and a parish in Orsett district, Essex. The village stands adjacent to the Purfleet station of the Tilbury railway, near the Thames, 7 miles SE of Romford. It has a post office under Romford, and a fair on Easter-Monday; and was formerly a market town. The parish comprises 2,934 acres of land, and 105 of water. Real property, £5,944. Pop., 930. Houses, 195. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £266.* Patron, the Bishop. The church is very old. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Aveley CP/AP Orsett RegD/PLU Essex AncC |
Place: | Aveley |
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