Layer Marney is a village and civil parish in theCity of Colchester district ofEssex, England, nearTiptree. Layer Marney has a Tudor palace calledLayer Marney Tower[1] and the Church of St Mary the Virgin.[2]
The ancient village was in thehundred of Winstree in 1086.[3]
In 1879Kezia Peache and her brother became the Lord and Lady of the Manor of Layer Marney.[4] The Peache siblings paid for the substantial repairs required to Layer Marney Tower.[5]
In 2001 the population of the civil parish of Layer Marney was 206.
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