Great Oakley, Essex

Great Oakley, Essex

Infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Great Oakley
latitude= 51.904
longitude= 1.190
civil_parish= Great Oakley
population =
shire_district= Tendring
shire_county= Essex
region= East of England
constituency_westminster= Harwich
post_town= Harwich
postcode_district = CO12
postcode_area= CO
dial_code= 01255
os_grid_reference= TM194276

Great Oakley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex. 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.

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

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 and indeed the parish still contains a large chemical works (the Great Oakley Works, operated by Exchem, which produces the cetane improver 2-ethyl hexyl nitrate, and also provides specialist explosives handling services [http://www.exchem-organics.co.uk/A_Century_Of_Success/cent.htm] ). However, there is now only one public house, called The Maybush.

Nearby places

External links

* [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/pageviewer.asp?fn=00008ttr.tif&dn=BCL8011tif&zoom=in Entry in Kelly's Directory of Essex, 1894]
* [http://www.great-oakley.co.uk Great Oakley village website]
* [http://football.great-oakley.co.uk Oakley Magna Football Club]


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