Great Wigborough is a Village in the county of Essex.

Great Wigborough postcode: CO5 7RJ

Retail in Great Wigborough

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

Colchester, Epping, Maldon, Southend-on-Sea, Saffron Walden, Braintree, and Basildon are great places to visit near Great Wigborough if you like towns.

The area close to Great Wigborough boasts some of the best castles including Colchester Castle.

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

Great Wigborough has some unmissable airports nearby like London Southend Airport, and London Stansted Airport.

There are a number of historic buildings near Great Wigborough including Audley End House and Gardens, and Chelmsford Cathedral.

There are a several good cities in the area around Great Wigborough like Chelmsford.

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

The area around Great Wigborough's best country parks can be found at Thorndon Country Park.

There are a several good shopping centres in the area around Great Wigborough like Lakeside Shopping Centre.

Places near Great Wigborough feature a number of interesting parks including Bedfords Park.

Bedfords Park is a great place to visit close to Great Wigborough if you like nature reserves.

Great Wigborough History

There are some historic monuments around Great Wigborough:

• Decoy pond immediately north of Pennyhole Fleet, Old Hall Marshes
• Town ditch
• Gore decoy 760m south east of Lauriston Farm
• Lexden Dyke Middle: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum
• Beckingham Hall (gatehouse and enclosure, walls including turrets)
• Bourne Mill
• Remains of All Saints Church, 60m north west of Stanway Hall Farm
• Gryme's Dyke Middle: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum
• Great Wigborough henge
• Remains of St Mary's Church
• Dovecote 80m south west of Olivers
• Kidman's Dyke in Walk Wood: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum
• Gosbecks Iron Age and Romano-British site
• Saxon Shore fort and Anglo-Saxon monastery at Bradwell-on-Sea
• Gryme's Dyke at Stanway Green: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum
• Square decoy pond 260m south of Pennyhole Fleet, Old Hall Marshes
• Roman barrow known as Lexden Mount: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Roman town of Camulodunum
• Coastal fish weirs at West Mersea, 570m south east of St Peter's Well
• Mill Mound: a bowl barrow 380m east of Payne's Farm
• Group of barrows at Annan Road
• Mill Mound: a bowl barrow 300m south-west of Beckingham Hall
• Site of pre-Roman settlement
• Coastal fish weir 440m north west of Pewet Island
• Lexden Dyke at Spring Meadow: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum
• Roman round building
• Circular brick kilns, W H Collier Brick and Tile Works, Church Lane
• Lexden Tumulus Iron Age barrow and associated cemetery area: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum
• The Benedictine Abbey of St John
• Moat Farm Dyke: a northern extension of Lexden Dyke; part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum
• SE corner of Roman town in Easthill House Gardens
• Balkerne Gate
• Kidman's Dyke North and Middle: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum
• Mersea Mount: a Roman barrow at Barrow Hill Farm
• Coastal fish weir at the northern end of The Nass
• St Botolph's Augustinian Priory
• The Triple Dyke: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum
• Colchester Castle and the Temple of Claudius
• Heath Farm Dyke Middle (rear of Alan Way): part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum
• Berechurch Dyke: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum
• Remains of an apsidal Roman building at Butt Road and Southway
• Roman Circus 200m south of Abbey House
• Remains of St Mary the Virgin's Church
• Roman saltern 750m north west of Maydays Farm
• Tumulus NW of East Donyland Hall
• Saxon coastal fish weir at Sales Point
• Decoy pond 500m south of Waldegraves Farm
• The rampart S of Haynes Green
• Town Wall