Description
Bromley, Little, a parish in Essex, 2 1/2 miles SE of Ardleigh station on the G.E.R., and 6 E by N of Colchester. It has a post office under Manningtree, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1844; population, 341. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £373 with residence. Patron, Wadham College, Oxford. The church is an ancient building of pudding-stone, consisting of chancel, nave, and an embattled western tower. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
