AVELEY, a parish (formerly a market-town) in the
hundred of CHAFFORD, county of ESSEX, If- mile (N.E.)
from Purfieet, containing 733 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and
diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £ 14.10.5,,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of London. The
church is dedicated to St. Michael. Here is an endowed
almshouse.