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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Virley like this:
VIRLEY, a parish in Lexden district, Essex; 7 miles SE of Kelvedon r. station. Post town, Kelvedon. Acres, 632. Real property, £1,179. Pop., 67. Houses, 16. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £140. Patron, alternately the Rev.S. Coxwelland Sir T. N. Abdy. The church is ancient. Charities, £5.
Virley is now part of COLCHESTER District. Click here for graphs and data of how COLCHESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Virley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Virley, in Colchester and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7119
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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