Great Oakley, Essex

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Great Oakley
Essex
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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]

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