page_title: Layer Breton
hierarchical_section_title: Layer Breton
caption_attribution_description: English: The image shows the location of Layer Breton on a 20th century ordnance survey map.
context_page_description: Layer Breton is a village and a civil parish in Essex, England. According to the 2011 census there were 144 males and 143 females. "Layer-Breton, a parish, with a village, in Lexden district, Essex; on a branch of the river Roman, 5 miles SE by S of Marks-Tey r. station, and 6 SW by S of Colchester." Layer Breton is part of the Layer parishes with Layer de la Haye being the neighbouring village to the west and Layer Marney neighbouring Layer Breton to the East. Layer Breton also touches parishes Birch and Great and little Wigborough. The village has a church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, rebuilt in brick in 1923 on a new site nearly a mile to the north of the old one. The village was among those which suffered damage from the 1884 Colchester earthquake.
context_section_description: Layer Breton is a village and a civil parish in Essex, England. According to the 2011 census there were 144 males and 143 females. "Layer-Breton, a parish, with a village, in Lexden district, Essex; on a branch of the river Roman, 5 miles SE by S of Marks-Tey r. station, and 6 SW by S of Colchester." Layer Breton is part of the Layer parishes with Layer de la Haye being the neighbouring village to the west and Layer Marney neighbouring Layer Breton to the East.  Layer Breton also touches parishes Birch and Great and little Wigborough. The village has a church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, rebuilt in brick in 1923 on a new site nearly a mile to the north of the old one. The village was among those which suffered damage from the 1884 Colchester earthquake.
caption: Layer Breton being shown on a 20th-century ordnance survey map.
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