Leyton, Essex
Location
Leyton is an Ancient Parish in the south-west part of the county of Essex.
Leyton is approximately twenty-five miles south-west of the county town of
Chelmsford.
Parish Church
The Parish (CofE) Church is St Mary the Virgin, which can be found here on
Google Street View.
Parish Registers
Essex Archives shows a holding of fourteen Registers of Baptism (1575 - 1970), twenty-four Marriage Registers (1575 - 1961) and eleven Burial Registers (1617 - 1984). For additional detail see
https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/ParishRegisters.aspx?selAlphabet=L&selParish=6677&selChurch=9159 (accessed 8 Aug 2023)
Adjacent (pre 1832) Parishes
To the east of Leyton is
Leytonstone. To the south is
Wanstead and
Stratford. To the west is
Hamerton,
Hackney and
Stamford Hill St Thomas. To the north is
Walthamstow. The parish is also divided in half by a strip of land that is part of
Walthamstow.
Gleanings from
