Great Oakley, Essex

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Great Oakley
Great Oakley shown within Essex
OS grid reference	TM194276
Parish	Great Oakley
District	Tendring
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Harwich
Postcode district	CO12
Dialling code	01255
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
European Parliament	East of England
UK Parliament	Harwich
List of places: UK • England • Essex

Coordinates: 51°54′14″N 1°11′24″E / 51.904, 1.19

Great Oakley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex. It is a long, narrow parish lying on the top of a low (25-metre) ridge south of Ramsey Creek which drains northeast 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.

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 Exchem, which produces the cetane improver 2-ethyl hexyl nitrate, and also provides specialist explosives handling services [1]). However, there is now only one public house, called The Maybush.