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Encyclopedia Britannica



BRENTWOOD

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 497 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRENTWOOD , a market town in the mid or
Chelmsford
  parliamentary division of Essex, England; 18 m. E.N.E. of London by the
Great
  Eastern railway (Brentwood and Worley station). Pop. of urban
district
  (1901) 4932. The neighbouring country is pleasantly undulating and well wooded. The church of St Thomas the
Martyr
 , with several chapels, is modern. The old assize
house
 , an Elizabethan structure, remains. A free grammar school was founded in 1557. The county asylum is in the vicinity. There are breweries and brick works. To the south lies the fine upland of Worley Common, with large barracks. Adjoining Brentwood to the north-
east
  is Shenfield, with the church of St Mary the Virgin, Early English and later. Brent-
wood
  was formerly an important posting station on the mainroad to the eastern counties, which follows the line of the railway to Colchester. The name (Brentwood) is supposed to record an
original
  settlement made in a clearing of the forest. The
district
  is largely residential.


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