Layer Breton is a village and a civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England.

[2] 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.

In the 1870s, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Layer Breton as: "A parish, with a village, in Lexden district, Essex.

Lewis Brito ('the Breton') gave land here to St. John's Abbey, Colchester in the 12th century.

It shows that the old building was of a similar shape and size to the new, having a vestry behind the altar and a wooden porch.

"[5] ST Mary The Virgin church it is part of a group of seven parishes of which belong to the Benefice of Thurstable and Winstree which came into being on 1 October 2013.

The other six parishes in the benefice are Tolleshunt Knights with Tiptree, Great Braxted, Messing, Inworth, Copford and Easthorpe.

This was the most common work sector during this period as many households relied on farm grown products and produce.

[11] The 2011 census data set also shows which employment sectors the people of Layer Breton are currently employed in the three most popular industries people are involved in are the manufacturing (11.5%), Education (11.5%) and Wholesale and Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motor Cycles (10.8%)[12] Ethnicity Information published by the 2011 census shows that the largest ethnic group in Layer Breton is White British.

The neighbourhood statistics website showed that the mean age for people living in Layer Breton was 46.1.

Destinations from this station include Ipswich, Colchester, Clacton-on-Sea and London Liverpool Street.

On weekdays they vary from 6 to 8 buses a day into nearby parishes Birch and Layer De La Haye.

Other destinations the bus goes to are the Tollgate Centre in Colchester, Shrub End, Heckfordbridge, Great Wigborough, Salcott, Tollesbury and Tolleshunt D'arcy.