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Great Waltham
Great Waltham Guildhall
Great WalthamLocation within Essex
OS grid reference	TL6960213455
Civil parish	Great Waltham
District	Chelmsford
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHELMSFORD
Postcode district	CM3
Dialling code	01245
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
List of places UK England Essex 51°47′37″N 0°27′27″E / 51.793598°N 0.45738000°E / 51.793598; 0.45738000

Great Waltham, also known as Church End, is a village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district, in the county of Essex, England.

Description

The parish contains the village of Ford End, and the hamlets of Broad's Green, Howe Street, Littley Green, North End and Fanner's Green, and the hamlet of Breeds, part of Great Waltham village. Walthambury Brook, a tributary of the River Chelmer, flows west to east through the parish and at the north of the village.

It is twinned with the French town of Ceyrat.

History

Local woman Elizabeth Lowys was the first English woman executed for witchcraft in 1565, after the passing of the Witchcraft Act 1563.

Landmarks

There were Roman settlements in the area. The Church of St Mary and St Lawrence is of Norman or earlier origin and is constructed of flint and stone. There is an Elizabethan guildhall, also known as Badynghams, and a Grade I listed house called Langley's.

Amenities

The village has a primary school, a post office, two churches and a few pubs. It had a bakery, a garage and a small fire station but they closed down in the late 1900s. The village of Little Waltham is about one mile away.

Location grid

v t e Places adjacent to Great Waltham
Howe Street Pleshey Great Waltham Little Waltham Broad's Green

See also

• The Hundred Parishes

References

1. Great Waltham Parish Council
2. "Elizabeth Lowys: Witch and Social Victim, 1564 | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
3. Esplen, Alan; Great Waltham Parish Essex vanity web site
4. Historic England. "Langleys (1305533)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 September 2019.

External links

• Listed buildings in Great Waltham

Media related to Great Waltham at Wikimedia Commons

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Villages and hamlets	Bicknacre Boyton Cross Boreham Chalk End (Pepper's Green) Chatham Green Chignall St James Chignall Smealy Cooksmill Green Danbury Downham East Hanningfield Fanner's Green Ford End Galleywood Galleyend Good Easter (Tye Green) Great Leighs Great Waltham Highwood Howe Green Howe Street Little Baddow Little Leighs Littley Green Little Waltham Margaretting (Margaretting Tye) Mashbury North End Pleshey Ramsden Heath Rettendon (Rettendon Common, Rettendon Place) Roxwell Runwell Sandon South Hanningfield Stock West Hanningfield Woodham Ferrers Writtle (Great Oxney Green, Newney Green)
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