THORLEY, a parish in the hundred of BRAUGHIN,
county of HERTFORD, 2 miles (S. S. W.) from Bishop's
Stortford, containing 386 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese
of London, rated in the king's books at £16. 13, 4.,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of London. The
church, dedicated to St. James, has an embattled tower,
surmounted by a lofty spire at the west end, and a Norman
doorway on the south.