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Great Wigborough is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Great and Little Wigborough in the Colchester borough of Essex, England.

Great Wigborough
St Stephen's church
Great Wigborough Location within Essex
OS grid reference	TL 968 151
Civil parish	Great and Little Wigborough
District	Colchester
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Colchester
Postcode district	CO5

Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England

UK Parliament	Witham
List of places UK England Essex 51.800°N 0.853°E / 51.800; 0.853

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'.[1]

In 1951 the parish had a population of 181.[2] On 1 April 1953 the parish was abolished and merged with Little Wigborough to form "Great and Little Wigborough".[3]

Great Wigborough is represented at the lowest tier of governance by Winstred Hundred Parish Council.[4]

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.[5]

References

Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.517.
"Population statistics Great Wigborough AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
"Relationships and changes Great Wigborough AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
"Home". winstred100.org.
Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN (1223003)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 June 2014.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Great Wigborough.

Mersea Island Museum – contains additional history of Great and Little Wigborough
St Stephen's Great Wigborough - National Lottery Heritage fund project with heritage and community information

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