Virley
Virley is a small village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It lies 7 miles south of Colchester. Virley closely adjoins the neighbouring village of Salcott, from which it is separated by Virley Brook, also known as Salcott Creek.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 64 residents
- Description: village in Essex, England, UK
- Also known as: “Virley, Essex”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abbotts Hall Farm and Church of St Nicholas.
Abbotts Hall Farm
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abbotts Hall Farm is a 282 hectare nature reserve in Great Wigborough in Essex. It is the head office of the Essex Wildlife Trust, which manages the site.
Church of St Nicholas
Church
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Nicholas is situated 2 miles east of Virley.
Queen’s Head
Pub
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Queen's Head is a public house at The Square, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex CM9 8TF. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. There is a listed phone box in the forecourt. Queen’s Head is situated 1½ miles southwest of Virley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salcott and Great Wigborough.
Salcott
Village
Photo: Derek Voller, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Salcott is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. Salcott closely adjoins the neighbouring village of Virley of the opposite side of Virley Brook; they are sometimes described as a single village of Salcott-cum-Virley.
Great Wigborough
Village
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Wigborough is a village in the civil parish of Great and Little Wigborough in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. The place-name 'Wigborough' first appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Wicgebergha and Wighebergha.
Little Wigborough
Hamlet
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Wigborough is a village in the civil parish of Great and Little Wigborough, in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. Little Wigborough is located between Peldon and Great Wigborough. Little Wigborough is situated 2 miles northeast of Virley.
Virley
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Tolleshunt Knights, Maldon District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.78886° or 51° 47′ 20″ northLongitude
0.82592° or 0° 49′ 33″ eastPopulation
64Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)Open location code
9F32QRQG+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 8497850259OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2634949Wikidata ID
Q1962769
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Virley” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Вирлей”
- Cebuano: “Virley”
- Chinese: “Virley”
- Dutch: “Virley”
- French: “Virley”
- Irish: “Virley”
- Italian: “Virley”
- Ladin: “Virley”
- Latin: “Salcota”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Virley”
- Persian: “ویرلی”
- Polish: “Virley”
- Swedish: “Virley”
- Turkish: “Virley”
- Welsh: “Virley”
- “Virley”
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Localities in the Area
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