Childerditch & Little Warley

To the south of Brentwood lie the villages and when you come to the ridge overlooking a wild and lovely common, with gorse covering are ideal picnic spots.

Looking across the common to the hollow below, you would scarcely realise that there were villages as there are no shops and no village street.

Mentioned in the Domesday Book, Little Warley (then known as Warley Parva) and Childerditch (possibly named after the stream which runs through the village.
There are a few whitewashed cottages of lathe and plaster, red brick or black and white Essex weatherboard.

The parish church in Little Warley is a patchwork building showing work of many centuries. It appears that the roof was once thatched. The chancel dates back to the 16th century and the tower two centuries later.