Great Maplestead

Great Maplestead is a village and a civil parish in the Braintree District, in the English county of Essex.

Later in the century the manor passed by marriage to Sir John Tyndal, Master of the Court of Chancery.

In the 1870s the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales said that Great Maplestead "took its name from maple trees, which anciently flourished on or around its site; and has the repute of being a very healthy place".

The closest city to Great Maplestead is Chelmsford, which is in central Essex, though the town of Colchester is closer.

Great Maplestead’s largest sectors in 1881 were mainly primary and secondary, representative of the time.

Around 95 people in Great Maplestead have a job as managers, directors, senior officials, associate, technical, administrative and secretarial roles.

Total population of Great Maplestead Civil Parish, Essex, as reported by the Census of Population from 1801–2011
A graph to show the occupations of the Great Maplestead population in 2011.
A graph to show occupation data for 1881 in Great Maplestead.
A map showing Great Maplestead and the surrounding area from the 20th century.