Description
Wakering, Great, an ancient parish in Essex, near the coast, 2 1/2 miles N from Shoeburyness station on the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway, and 5 NE from Southend-on-Sea. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Southend. Acreage, 2775; population, 1652. The parish includes the islands of Great Potton and Rushley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £146 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of St Albans. The church is an ancient edifice of stone, Norman with Perpendicular additions, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and a western tower with shingled spire. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
