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| Witham's Morrison's Supermarket site was once the factory site of 'Crittal Windows', until 1994 when the factory was closed, moved to Braintree and Safeway's Superstores purchased the site. | Witham's Morrison's Supermarket site was once the factory site of 'Crittal Windows', until 1994 when the factory was closed, moved to Braintree and Safeway's Superstores purchased the site. | ||
| The town started life on 'Chipping Hill', where the old forge still exists to this day. As |
The town started life on 'Chipping Hill', where the old forge still exists to this day. As the years went by, the hamlet grew to become 'Witham' and St Nicolas Church (a unique spelling) serves a congrigation of around 150 people each Sunday. | ||
| Witham, and parts of the ] district hold one of the best ] schemes in the UK, with compulsary recycling, reaching over 50% recycling. | Witham, and parts of the ] district hold one of the best ] schemes in the UK, with compulsary recycling, reaching over 50% recycling. | ||
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Witham (pronounced Wit-ham) is a town in the county of Essex, in the south east of England. The population (2001 census) is 22,500. It is part of the District of Braintree. The district of Braintree is one of the most marginal constituancies in the UK and currently 2004/2005, and Labour is in power with a majority of just 0.71%.
It has a mainline railway station on the London Liverpool Street to Norwich line, operated by National Express 'One'. Witham is situated at A12 trunk road between Chelmsford and Colchester. The town expanded greatly in the late nineteen sixties and seventies when the Greater London Council built 3 large estates there for families from London to move to. A one time famous resident of the town is the authour Dorothy L Sayers. Witham is twinned with the town of Waldbrol, Germany. The parish of Witham appears in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Witham has a small town centre, with a number of small shops, enough to provide for the town. There is a Tesco and a Morrison superstore situated in Witham, and a branch line leading from Witham station to Braintree and Braintree Freeport, where there is a large out of town shopping centre, supplied with its own station, and free bus from Braintree.
There are two secondary schools in Witham, The John Bramston School, and The Rickstones school, both achieving a slightly below average 5 A*-C GCSE rating, averaging around the 40% mark. Templars, Howbridge and Powers Hall serve the primary age children of this comunity.
Witham's Morrison's Supermarket site was once the factory site of 'Crittal Windows', until 1994 when the factory was closed, moved to Braintree and Safeway's Superstores purchased the site.
The town started life on 'Chipping Hill', where the old forge still exists to this day. As the years went by, the hamlet grew to become 'Witham' and St Nicolas Church (a unique spelling) serves a congrigation of around 150 people each Sunday.
Witham, and parts of the Braintree district hold one of the best recycling schemes in the UK, with compulsary recycling, reaching over 50% recycling.
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