Great Waltham

Great Waltham is a village and a parish in the Chelmsford District, in the county of Essex. It has a guildhall called Great Waltham Guildhall. It is a few miles away from the large town of Chelmsford. There is a large house called Langley's which has existed for over 300 years and is surrounded by a deer park, although the parkland is actually used for cattle grazing.

The parish also consists of the village of Ford End, and four hamlets – Howe Street, Littley Green, North End, Church End and Broads Green.

Great Waltham is on Walthambury Brook. It has a primary school, a post office, two churches and a few pubs. It used to have a bakery, a garage and a small fire station but they closed down in the late 1900s. The village of Little Waltham exists about a mile away.

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Howe Street
Pleshey Little Waltham
   Great Waltham    
Broads Green

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Towns, villages & hamlets of Chelmsford borough, Essex, England
Contiguous with Chelmsford: Broomfield • Chelmer Village • Great Baddow • Moulsham • North Melbourne • Springfield • Widford
Towns:
Villages & Hamlets:
Bicknacre • Boreham • Chalk End • Chatham Green • Chignal St James • Chignall Smealy • Cooksmill Green • Danbury • Downham • East Hanningfield • Fanner's Green • Ford End • Galleywood • Galleyend • Good Easter • Great Leighs • Great Oxney Green • Great Waltham • Highwood • Howe Green • Howe Street • Little Baddow • Little Leighs • Littley Green • Little Waltham • Margaretting • Margaretting Tye • Mashbury • Newney Green • North End • Pepper's Green • Pleshey • Ramsden Heath • Rettendon • Rettendon Place • Roxwell • Runwell • Sandon • South Hanningfield • Stock • Tye Green • West Hanningfield • Woodham Ferrers • Writtle