Fordham is a village and a civil parish in the Colchester District, in the English county of Essex. Fordham, near the town of Colchester, has a post office, a school, a place of worship and two pubs. The noted classical scholar Thomas Twining of the tea-merchant family held the curacy of the church from 1764 until his death in 1804.[1] The parish includes the nearby hamlets of Fordham Heath and Hemp's Green.