Village in Essex, England

Great Wakering

Great Wakering is a village and civil parish in the Rochford District of Essex, England.

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London, Essex → Great Wakering
64 km · quickest by road, 2h · £7–9
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London → Great Wakering
64 km · quickest by road, 2h · £7–9
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Luton, Luton → Great Wakering
92 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £10–14
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The field note

What is in and around Great Wakering, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Great Wakering has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 55 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesBurnham Ferry, 8 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

51.552°, 0.817°

It is approximately 4 miles (6 km) east of Southend-on-Sea, its post town. Great Wakering consists mainly of two roads: the High Street, which runs from the junction of Star Lane, and New Road, which begins outside St Nicholas' Parish Church and runs down to the bridges for Foulness Island. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 6,037, and the Great Wakering built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 6,775.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: User:Hassocks5489 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.