Great Wakering is a Town in the county of Essex.

Retail in Great Wakering

There are great places to visit near Great Wakering including some great towns, castles, woodlands, airports, historic buildings, cities, villages, country parks, shopping centres, parks and nature reserves.

Towns to visit near Great Wakering include Colchester, Epping, Maldon, Southend-on-Sea, Saffron Walden, Braintree, and Basildon.

Places near Great Wakering feature a number of interesting castles including Colchester Castle.

Epping Forest, and Bedfords Park are some of Great Wakering best woodlands to visit near Great Wakering.

London Southend Airport, and London Stansted Airport are great places to visit near Great Wakering if you like airports.

Historic Buildings to visit near Great Wakering include Audley End House and Gardens, and Chelmsford Cathedral.

There are a number of cities near to Great Wakering including Chelmsford.

Hatfield Peverel is one of Great Wakering's best, nearby villages to visit in Great Wakering.

There are a several good country parks in the Great Wakering area like Thorndon Country Park, and Hainault Forest Country Park.

The area close to Great Wakering boasts some of the best shopping centres including Lakeside Shopping Centre.

There are a number of parks near to Great Wakering including Bedfords Park.

Places near Great Wakering feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Bedfords Park.

Great Wakering History

There are some historic monuments around Great Wakering:

• Defended prehistoric settlement at Shoeburyness, known as the Danish Camp
• World War II minefield control tower 940m and pillbox 980m south east of Holliwell Farm
• Mud Berth for CGWV No 7 (formerly HMS Beagle)
• Atomic Weapons Research Establishment Foulness Island, 1947 Explosives Storage Area
• Romano-British burial site on Foulness Island
• Cold War defence boom, Pig's Bay, Shoeburyness
• Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre Bastion
• World War II caisson, West Knock sandbank, Shoebury Ness