| Great Waltham | |
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 Great Waltham Guildhall | |
  Great Waltham Location within Essex | |
| OS grid reference | TL6960213455 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CHELMSFORD |
| Postcode district | CM3 |
| Dialling code | 01245 |
| Police | Essex |
| Fire | Essex |
| Ambulance | East of England |
Great Waltham, also known as Church End, is a village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district, in the county of Essex, England. [1]
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.
Local woman Elizabeth Lowys was the first English woman executed for witchcraft in 1565, after the passing of the Witchcraft Act 1563. [2]
There were Roman settlements in the area.[ citation needed ] The Church of St Mary and St Lawrence is of Norman or earlier origin and is constructed of flint and stone. [3] There is an Elizabethan guildhall, also known as Badynghams, and a Grade I listed house called Langley's. [4]
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.
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Chingford is a suburban town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The centre of Chingford is 9.2 miles (14.8 km) north-east of Charing Cross, with Waltham Abbey to the north, Woodford Green and Buckhurst Hill to the east, Walthamstow to the south, and Edmonton and Enfield to the west. It had a population of 70,583 at the 2021 census.
The London Borough of Waltham Forest is an outer London borough formed in 1965 from the merger of the municipal boroughs of Leyton, Walthamstow and Chingford.
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For the historic house in Essex called Langley's, see Great Waltham.
Great Amwell is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. It is 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) southeast of Ware and about 20 miles (32 km) north of London. In 2011 the parish had a population of 2353.
Little Waltham is a village and civil parish just north of Chelmsford, in Essex, England. It is adjacent to the village of Great Waltham. The Domesday Book refers to the two villages as Waltham, consisting of several manors. The site of an Iron Age village was excavated before upgrading the main road north between the current villages.
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Littley Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Great Waltham and the Chelmsford borough of Essex, England. The hamlet is at the extreme north of Great Waltham, with the nearest settlement the hamlet of Hartford End, less than 1 mile (2 km) west in the civil parish of Felsted.
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Jacks Hatch, is a hamlet in the Epping Upland civil parish of the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.
Elizabeth Lowys, was an English woman executed for witchcraft. She is known as the first woman to be executed for witchcraft in England after the passing of the Witchcraft Act 1563.
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