Great Wigborough

Great Wigborough is a village in the civil parish of Great and Little Wigborough in the Colchester borough of Essex, England, and forms part of Winstred Hundred.[1] The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census is 246.[2]

Great Wigborough
Great Wigborough
Location within Essex
OS grid referenceTL 968 151
District
  • Colchester
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townColchester
Postcode districtCO5
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
St Stephen's church

The hamlet of Stafford's Corner lies to the northwest of the village on the B1026 road.

The place-name 'Wigborough' first appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Wicgebergha and Wighebergha. The name means 'Wicga's hill or barrow'.[3]

St Stephen's church dates from the 14th century and is a grade II* listed building. Heavily damaged in the Colchester earthquake of 1884, it was extensively restored.[4]

References
  1. http://www.winstred100.org
  2. "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  3. Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.517.
  4. Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN (1223003)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 June 2014.



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