WEELEY, a parish in the hundred of TENDRING,
county of ESSEX, 9 miles (S. S.E.) from Manningtree,
containing 668 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese
of London, rated in the king's books at £ 12, and in the
patronage of the Bishop of London. The church, dedicated
to St. Andrew, has an embattled tower built of
remarkably large bricks. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. Extensive barracks were
formerly kept up here.