These form part of the Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve managed by Essex Wildlife Trust.

[3] During the 1st Century AD Fingringhoe was home to a river port which serviced the nearby provincial capital of Roman Britain at Camulodunum (modern Colchester).

[8] A manor located at Fingringhoe was donated by Henry I of England to the Norman abbey of Saint-Ouen at Rouen.

Fingringhoe is one of many British towns and villages referenced in Karl Marx's Das Kapital as part of "Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation".

A prominent feature in the centre of the village, the north wall of St Andrew's Church dates back to the 12th century.