Great Wigborough
Village in Essex, England
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Great Wigborough is a village in the civil parish of Great and Little Wigborough in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England.
| Great Wigborough | |
|---|---|
St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough | |
  Great Wigborough Location within Essex | |
| OS grid reference | TL 968 151 |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Colchester |
| Postcode district | CO5 |
| Police | Essex |
| Fire | Essex |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
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]
St Stephen's Church dates from the 14th century and is a Grade II* listed building. Heavily damaged in the 1884 Colchester earthquake, it was subsequently extensively restored.[2]
Great Wigborough was an ancient parish in the Winstree or Winstred hundred of Essex. In 1953 the parish was merged with its neighbour Little Wigborough to form a new civil parish called Great and Little Wigborough.[3] At the 1951 census (the last before the abolition of the civil parish), Great Wigborough had a population of 181.[4]
Great and Little Wigborough now shares a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parishes of Peldon, Salcott and Virley, called the Winstred Hundred Parish Council.[5]
