Great Wakering is a Town in the county of Essex.

Retail in Great Wakering

There are great places to visit near Great Wakering including some great towns, castles, woodlands, airports, historic buildings, cities, villages, country parks, shopping centres, parks and nature reserves.

Great Wakering's best nearby towns can be found at Colchester, Epping, Maldon, Southend-on-Sea, Saffron Walden, Braintree, and Basildon.

Great Wakering is near some unmissable castles like Colchester Castle,

Epping Forest, and Bedfords Park are great places to visit near Great Wakering if you like woodlands.

The area around Great Wakering boasts some of the best airports including London Southend Airport, and London Stansted Airport.

Don't miss Audley End House and Gardens, and Chelmsford Cathedral's historic buildings if visiting the area around Great Wakering.

There are a several good cities in the area around Great Wakering like Chelmsford.

There are a number of villages near to Great Wakering including Hatfield Peverel.

Country Parks to visit near Great Wakering include Thorndon Country Park.

Great Wakering is near some unmissable shopping centres like Lakeside Shopping Centre,

The area close to Great Wakering boasts some of the best parks including Bedfords Park.

Don't miss Bedfords Park's nature reserves if visiting the area around Great Wakering.

Great Wakering History

There are some historic monuments around Great Wakering:

• Mud Berth for CGWV No 7 (formerly HMS Beagle)
• Atomic Weapons Research Establishment Foulness Island, 1947 Explosives Storage Area
• Defended prehistoric settlement at Shoeburyness, known as the Danish Camp
• World War II minefield control tower 940m and pillbox 980m south east of Holliwell Farm
• Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre Bastion
• Cold War defence boom, Pig's Bay, Shoeburyness
• World War II caisson, West Knock sandbank, Shoebury Ness
• Romano-British burial site on Foulness Island