White Notley
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Church in White Notley

White Notley is a parish in Essex, East Anglia, England. The settlement (which includes the outlying hamlet of The Green) lies equidistant between the towns of Witham and Braintree amongst arable farmland, 4 miles in each direction. White Notley is a quintessentially English village with a small primary school, Public House, White Notley railway station, Post Office, Village Hall and a 10th Century Church. The village has a population of fewer than five hundred inhabitants.

History

White Notley and the larger neighbouring village of Black Notley (located 3 miles to the north-west) formerly constituted one township – Notley. The name is supposed to have been derived from the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) “knut” and “ley” (meaning “nut pasture”) and is mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086 A.D.) as Nutle[i]a.

Football club

The local football club, White Notley F.C., was formed on 12th May, 1950,¹ and joined the Essex Intermediate League Division Two in 1988. In the 2001-02 season the club finished second, and was promoted to Division One. After finishing 11th out of 12 teams in the 2003-04 season, the club was relegated to Division Two, but was promoted the following season after winning the Division Two championship.^{2 3} In the 2006-07 season they were members of the Essex Olympian Football League Division One, finishing in third place, but then dropped down to the Essex and Suffolk Border Football League.

References

External links

• Village Community Website

Coordinates: 51°50′N 0°35′E / 51.833, 0.583