Great Wigborough

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

Great Wigborough is a village in the civil parish of Great and Little Wigborough in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England.

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]

References

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