Great Oakley, Essex
| Great Oakley | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
.jpg) All Saints Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TM194276 |
| Location: | 51°54’14"N, 1°11’24"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,017 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Harwich |
| Postcode: | CO12 |
| Dialling code: | 01255 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Tendring |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Harwich |
Great Oakley is a village and parish in the Tendring hundred of Essex. It is a long, narrow parish lying on the top of a low (80 ft) ridge south of Ramsey Creek which drains north-east 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.
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 and indeed 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.
Notable people
- James Cockle, a surgeon and father of mathematician and first Chief Justice of Queensland, Sir James Cockle.[4]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ "Civil Parish 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123947&c=great+oakley+cp&d=16&e=62&g=6425917&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1443174854349&enc=1. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. https://archive.is/20071017133305/http://www.allsaintsgreatoakley.ik.org/. Retrieved 2010-05-31.
- ↑ http://www.exchem-organics.co.uk/A_Century_Of_Success/cent.htm
- ↑ John Michael Bennett (November 2003). Sir James Cockle: first chief justice of Queensland, 1863-1879. Federation Press. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-86287-485-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=lgparZwLS9wC&pg=PA1. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
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