WARLEY (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of CHAFFORD, county of ESSEX, 3 miles (S.) from Brentwood, containing 521 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at A14, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.