Wivenhoe

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Statistics
Population:	9,000+
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	Maps for TM045225
Administration
District:	Colchester
County:	Essex
Region:	East of England
Nation:	England
Other
Police force:	Essex Police
Ceremonial county:	Essex
Historic county:	Essex
Post office and telephone
Post town:	COLCHESTER
Postal district:	CO7
Dialling code:	01206
Politics
UK Parliament:	Wivenhoe Quay, Wivenhoe Cross
European Parliament:	East of England

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It lies on the outskirts of the town of Colchester and is popular with students from the University of Essex owing to the many pubs located there. It is connected by a seasonal ferry service across the River Colne to Fingringhoe and Rowhedge. As of 2003, the town had a population of 9,000. The town's history centres around fishing, ship building, and smuggling. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... University of Essex The Universitys of Essex are a British university, two of the plate glass universities (like Warwick or York). ... A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries influenced by British cultural heritage. ... The Pride of Rotterdam, One of the P&O Ferriess Flagships operating the Hull-Rotterdam Route A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and sometimes their vehicles, on scheduled services. ... Colne is a town (population approx 20,000), in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England, close to the Yorkshire border. ... Fingringhoe (grid reference TM029203) is a small village located five miles south-east of Colchester. ... Rowhedge is a village in Essex. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January events January 1 Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ...

Wivenhoe is a Saxon name meaning Wifa's (Wiven) Ridge (hoe). Wifa was a person or tribe the town's area belonged to before the Norman Conquest. Also dating to time of the Saxons is the site of the town's first church: St. Mary-the-Virgin. Interestingly, there is also a second theory that the town name has evolved from "Wyvernhoe" to its current name. This originates from a mythical beast called a wyvern and the previously mentioned ridge (hoe) Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... Bayeux Tapestry depicting events leading to the Battle of Hastings The Norman Conquest of England was the conquest of the Kingdom of England by William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy), in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings and the subsequent Norman control of England. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Wivenhoe Park, John Constable, 1816.

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x689, 112 KB) Description: Title: de: Wivenhoe Park, Essex, Wohnsitz des Major-Generals Rebow Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 56,1 × 101,2 cm Country of origin: de: Großbritanien Current location (city): de: Washington (D.C.) Current location... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x689, 112 KB) Description: Title: de: Wivenhoe Park, Essex, Wohnsitz des Major-Generals Rebow Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 56,1 × 101,2 cm Country of origin: de: Großbritanien Current location (city): de: Washington (D.C.) Current location... A self portrait by John Constable John Constable (June 11, 1776 – March 31, 1837) was a British Romantic artist. ...

Famous Citizens

Wivenhoe is the home of the poet Martin Newell who every year also attends and is the main star at the May fair, which is located in the King George V playing field. It was also home to BAFTA-nominated actress Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple in the BBC adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels. Martin Newell (born 1953), also known as the Wild Man of Wivenhoe, is an English rock and roll musician, poet and author. ... Joan Hickson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Joan Hickson as Miss Marple Jane Marple, usually known as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in many Agatha Christie novels. ... Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976), was an English crime fiction writer. ...

It was once a favourite watering hole of Francis Bacon, the famous British artist, and several journalists and writers have been based in the lower end of the town - George Gale (former editor of The Spectator, Daily Telegraph cartoonist and Daily Express columnist) and Peregrine Worsthorne, (former editor of the Sunday Telegraph) both had homes there. Nowadays residents include Professor Hugh Brogan, author of the Penguin History of America, Auriol Ashworth, former editor of the Times Education Supplement, John Ashworth, chairman of the British Library, Professor Anthony Everitt, former Arts Council secretary general and writer of best-selling biography Cicero, and Roddy Ashworth, Essex chief reporter of the East Anglian Daily Times and night news editor of the Sunday Express. Wivenhoe is also the home of renowned sculptor Guy Taplin and a sign above the entrance to its station car park inspired then resident film director Steve Roberts to create the animatronic TV hit of the 1980s, Max Headroom. Respected film and TV director Gerry Poulson - who has been the man in the chair for everything from the early 70's Black Beauty, through Heartbeat and London's Burning - also lives here on the "frontage" of the River Colne, Essex. Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Anglo-Irish figurative painter. ... George Gale (3 June 1756 - 2 January 1815) was an American politician. ... The Spectator is a conservative British political magazine, established 1828, published weekly. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... The Daily Express is a conservative, middle-market British tabloid newspaper. ... Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne (born December 22, 1923) is a British Conservative journalist, writer and broadcaster. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... British Library Ossulston St entrance, with distinctive red logo. ... The Arts Council of Great Britain was a Quango dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Britain. ... The Daily Express is a British newspaper, currently tabloid, and it is owned by Richard Desmond. ... Steven V. Roberts Roberts was in hired in 1964 by the New York Times as research assistant to James Reston, then the papers Washington bureau chief. ... Max Headroom doing a promotion for Cinemax Max Headroom is the name of a fictional artificial intelligence, known for his surreal wit and a stuttering, distorted, electronically sampled delivery. ... Black Beauty is a novel written in 1877 by Anna Sewell about the life of a horse from his carefree days as a foal on an English farm enjoying the countryside with his mother, to his sale and his career pulling cabs and wagons in London. ... The heart rate is the number of contractions of the heart in one minute. ... Londons Burning was a television programme produced by London Weekend Television. ... The River Colne is a small rive that runs through Colchester. ...

Actor-manager Sir John Martin-Harvey was born in the village in 1863 and is commemorated by a blue plaque on Quay House, one of his childhood homes. He was the son of yacht-designer John Harvey and grandson of Thomas Harvey, yacht builder. The Volante was built by Thomas Harvey & Son (Thomas & Thomas Harvey junior) in the Halifax Yard at Ipswich. The "Volante" competed in the first America's Cup in 1851. John Martin Harvey (22 June 1866–14 May 1944), known after his knighthood in 1921 as Sir John Martin-Harvey, was one of last great romantic actors of the English theatre. ... 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... The Americas Cup trophy The Americas Cup (originally the 100 Guineas Cup, then the America Cup ) is the most famous and most prestigious competition in the sport of yachting, and the oldest active trophy in international sports, predating the FA Cup by two decades and the Modern Olympics... 1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

During the first half of the nineteenth century, Wivenhoe Hall was the home of William Brummell, brother of the more famous Beau Brummell. Brummell, engraved from a miniature portrait. ...

Harry Bensley became famous for taking on a wager to walk around Britain and 18 other countries while wearing an iron mask and pushing a perambulator. Bensley lived in the village with his wife, Kate, after having served in the First World War. [1] Harry Bensley (?, 1876 or 1877 - May 21, 1956) was an English rake and adventurer, best remembered as the subject of an extraordinary wager between John Pierpoint Morgan and Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale. ...

Wivenhoe Park, now part of the University of Essex was the home for several centuries of the Rebow family, descendants of Flemish clothweavers from Colchester. Wivenhoe Park on the Eastern edge of Colchester is a multi-acre landscaped green space. ... University of Essex The Universitys of Essex are a British university, two of the plate glass universities (like Warwick or York). ... Flemings (Dutch: Vlamingen) are inhabitants of Flanders in the widest sense of the term, i. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Current Issues

At the moment there are a number of local issues being thrashed out. One of these is an application for planning permission - now approved by Colchester Borough Council - to build a new housing estate on the old James Cook & Son shipyard site. Issues over transport links and provision of services are some of those being debated.

A second issue is the siting of a skateboard park in the town. Young people have been campaigning for over 10 years for a skateboarding facility in the town and after much research in the last year a number of sites were drawn up and finally settled on one halfway down the King George V playing field. This poses its own issues such as conflicting with the May Fair.

Another community project in the town focuses on a former goods shed (paradoxically known as "The Engine Shed") near the town's Station. This large, grade II listed Victorian building is in an ever-deteriorating state of disrepair and has been disused for around 20 years. Over the past decade, a committee made up of local councillors and amateur theatrical group members have been attempting to gain permission and funding to convert the building into a small theatre. Originally it was hoped a capital lottery grant could help with this, as Railtrack, the building's owners, were prepared to lease the building for a peppercorn rent or even sell the deeds altogether for a minimum sum. Unfortunately, with the passing of time, the lottery's criteria and priorities for funding have changed and it now looks less likely that the hundreds of thousands of pounds needed to bring the project to fruition can be raised from that source.

Wivenhoe has also been the home of the Wivenhoe Funny Farm comedy club since September 2005; a non-profit making club run by a local comedian that attracts professional comedians to perform at Wivenhoe Town FC clubhouse. [2]

External links

• The Wivenhoe Encyclopedia - maintained by Cllr. Peter Hill, Paul Alden, and Wivenhoe Town Council
• Homepage for Wivenhoe Town Council
• Article on Wivenhoe from the "Towns & Villages" section of the "This is Essex" website
• - Wivenhoe Funny Farm website.
• Wivenhoe - White's Directory of Essex, 1848