Great Wigborough is a village and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

, now in the parish of Great and Little Wigborough in the

Colchester Colchester ( ) is a city in Essex, in the East of England. It had a population of 122,000 in 2011. The demonym is Colcestrian. Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colch ...

borough of

Essex Essex () is a Ceremonial counties of England, county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the Riv ...

, England. The place-name 'Wigborough' first appears in the ''

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

'' of 1086, where it appears as ''Wicgebergha'' and ''Wighebergha''. The name means 'Wicga's hill or barrow'. In 1951 the parish had a population of 181. On 1 April 1953 the parish was abolished and merged with

Little Wigborough Little Wigborough is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Great and Little Wigborough, in the Colchester borough of Essex, England and forms part of Winstred Hundred Parish Council. Little Wigborough is located between Peld ...

to form "Great and Little Wigborough". Great Wigborough is represented at the lowest tier of governance by Winstred Hundred Parish Council. St Stephen's church dates from the 14th century and is a Grade II* listed building. Heavily damaged in the Colchester earthquake of 1884, it was extensively restored.

References

External links

Mersea Island Museum
– contains additional history of Great and Little Wigborough
St Stephen's Great Wigborough
- National Lottery Heritage fund project with heritage and community information Villages in Essex Former civil parishes in Essex Borough of Colchester {{Essex-geo-stub