Great Bentley

Great Bentley, in the Tendring district of Essex, England, has the second largest village green in the country, a short stroll from the quaint rural Great Bentley railway station with its manned level crossing which is being updated to automatic barriers in the near future on the Colchester to Clacton Line. Great Bentley is a large and pleasant village, scattered round an extensive level or common, of 42 acres, on the eastern side of the vale of a rivulet, eight miles east-south-east of Colchester. The parish contains 2500 inhabitants, and 3,188 acres (13 km²) of fertile land, pleasingly diversified with hill and dale, and extending southward to the Flag Creek, which empties into the Colne, near Brightlingsea. Pubs in the area include: The Plough Inn beside the village green and the Royal Fusilier in the nearby hamlet of Aingers Green which is in Aingers Green Road (grid reference TM116203).

Contenders for the title of largest village green in England include West Auckland and Old Buckenham. Frampton on Severn has also been cited, but at 22 acres it does not even match Great Bentley.