Great Oakley, Essex

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Great Oakley
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Great Oakley
Location within Essex
Population1,017 (2011) [1]
OS grid reference TM194276
Civil parish
  • Great Oakley
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Harwich
Postcode district CO12
Dialling code 01255
Police Essex
Fire Essex
Ambulance East of England
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51°54′14″N1°11′24″E / 51.904°N 1.190°E / 51.904; 1.190 Coordinates: 51°54′14″N1°11′24″E / 51.904°N 1.190°E / 51.904; 1.190

Great Oakley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is a long, narrow parish lying on the top of a low (25 m) ridge south of Ramsey Creek which drains northeast towards Harwich. The parish extends south to Oakley Creek, a branch of Hamford Water, where stood Great Oakley Dock, now disused.

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The church, dedicated to All Saints, contains some Norman work. The living thereof is in the gift of St John's College, Cambridge.

The village is served by All Saints Great Oakley C of E Primary School. [2]

A public house called The Three Cups – after the emblem of the Salters Company – used to be situated in the village, indicating that there were salt works in the area. The parish still contains a large chemical works (the Great Oakley Works), operated by EPC-UK, which produces the cetane improver 2-ethyl hexyl nitrate, and also provides specialist explosives handling services. [3]

The Village now has only one public house, called The Maybush Inn, which in 2016 was reopened as a Community Pub. [4]

The Village has a men's football team Great Oakley FC which plays in the Colchester and District Sunday League.

Governance

Great Oakley is part of the electoral ward called Great and Little Oakley. The ward population at the 2011 census was 2,188. [5]

Nearby places

Wrabness Ramsey Harwich
Wix Great Oakley Little Oakley
Tendring Beaumont-cum-Moze Walton-on-the-Naze

Notable people

James Cockle, a surgeon and father of mathematician and first Chief Justice of Queensland Sir James Cockle. [6]

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References

  1. "Civil Parish 2011" . Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  2. "All Saints Church Of England VA Primary School" . Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  3. "Fuels Additives". Archived from the original on 2 September 2006.
  4. "The Maybush Inn at Great Oakley". VCS Websites. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  5. "Great and Little Oakley Ward population 2011" . Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  6. John Michael Bennett (November 2003). Sir James Cockle: first chief justice of Queensland, 1863-1879. Federation Press. p. 1. ISBN   978-1-86287-485-5.