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BRENTWOOD , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:mid or See also:Chelmsford See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Essex, See also:England; 18 m. E.N.E. of See also:London by the See also:Great Eastern railway (Brentwood and Worley station). Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 4932. The neighbouring See also:country is pleasantly undulating and well wooded. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas the See also:Martyr, with several chapels, is See also:modern. The old See also:assize See also:house, an Elizabethan structure, remains. A See also:free See also:grammar school was founded in 1557. The See also:county See also:asylum is in the vicinity. There are breweries and See also:brick See also:works. To the See also:south lies the See also:fine upland of Worley See also:Common, with large See also:barracks. Adjoining Brentwood to the See also:north-See also:east is Shenfield, with the church of St See also:Mary the Virgin, See also:Early See also:English and later. Brent-See also:wood was formerly an important posting station on the mainroad to the eastern counties, which follows the See also:line of the railway to See also:Colchester.
The name (Brentwood) is supposed to See also:record an See also:original See also:settlement made in a clearing of the See also:forest. The district is largely residential.
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