Great Waltham
Great Waltham Guildhall
Great Waltham Location within Essex
OS grid reference	TL6960213455
Civil parish	Great Waltham
District	Chelmsford
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHELMSFORD
Postcode district	CM3
Dialling code	01245
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
List of places UK England Essex 51°47′37″N 0°27′27″E / 51.793598°N 0.45738000°E / 51.793598; 0.45738000

Great Waltham, also known as Church End, is a village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district, in the county of Essex, England.^[1]

The parish contains the village of Ford End, and the hamlets of Broad's Green, Howe Street, Littley Green, North End and Fanner's Green, and the hamlet of Breeds, part of Great Waltham village. Walthambury Brook, a tributary of the River Chelmer, flows west to east through the parish and at the north of the village.

It is twinned with the French town of Ceyrat.

Local woman Elizabeth Lowys was the first English woman executed for witchcraft in 1565, after the passing of the Witchcraft Act 1563.^[2]

There were Roman settlements in the area.^{[citation needed]} The Church of St Mary and St Lawrence is of Norman or earlier origin and is constructed of flint and stone.^[3] There is an Elizabethan guildhall, also known as Badynghams, and a Grade I listed house called Langley's.^[4]

The village has a primary school, a post office, two churches and a few pubs. It had a bakery, a garage and a small fire station but they closed down in the late 1900s. The village of Little Waltham is about one mile away.

• The Hundred Parishes

• Listed buildings in Great Waltham

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