Fryerning

Fryerning is a village in the civil parish of Ingatestone and Fryerning, in the Borough of Brentwood in Essex, England. It is situated approximately north of Ingatestone. The parish church of St. Mary the Virgin, on Blackmore Road, dates back from the 11th century, with a 15th-century brick tower. It has a memorial stained glass window to the murdered politician Airey Neave, which was unveiled by his cousin Penelope in 1985. An ancient English Yew, found to the west of the church and is over a millennium old, is thought to be one of Essex's oldest trees. Fryerning was formerly a civil parish; it was merged with Ingatestone in 1889. Fryerning is located in mid-Essex and has several big areas of woodland populated by several large herds of deer, which are frequently seen by walkers and cyclists. The village has no shops, but two pubs.

Fryerning is a village in the civil parish of Ingatestone and Fryerning, in the Borough of Brentwood in Essex, England. It is situated approximately north of Ingatestone. The parish church of St. Mary the Virgin, on Blackmore Road, dates back from the 11th century, with a 15th-century brick tower. It has a memorial stained glass window to the murdered politician Airey Neave, which was unveiled by his cousin Penelope in 1985. An ancient English Yew, found to the west of the church and is over a millennium old, is thought to be one of Essex's oldest trees. Fryerning was formerly a civil parish; it was merged with Ingatestone in 1889. Fryerning is located in mid-Essex and has several big areas of woodland populated by several large herds of deer, which are frequently seen by walkers and cyclists. The village has no shops, but two pubs.

Administrative history

Fryerning was an ancient parish in the Chelmsford Hundred of Essex. The parish had complicated boundaries with the neighbouring parish of Ingatestone. A large part of the built up area of Ingatestone was actually in Fryerning parish, and through the centre of Ingatestone village the boundary followed the main street. Ingatestone parish also had a large detached rural exclave to the north of Fryerning parish. The complicated boundaries likely arose from them having anciently been created from the subdivision of an earlier territory. In 1889 the two parishes were merged into a new civil parish called Ingatestone and Fryerning. At the 1881 census (the last before the abolition of the civil parish), Fryerning had a population of 704. When elected parish and district councils were established in 1894¹, Ingatestone and Fryerning was given a parish council and included in the Chelmsford Rural District. The parish was transferred to Brentwood district in 1974.

References

External links

Fryerning Parish Church

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