Great Notley is a village to the south-west of Braintree, Essex in England.

Excavations in Great Notley revealed the remains of Iron Age and Roman settlements with a series of enclosures overlaid with a Roman development on the site of the Skyline Business Park, where it is thought that there was a series of occupations on the site from the late Iron Age onwards, which included brewing, farming and the production of textiles.

[3] Great Notley was designed as a suburban development, a self-sustainable garden village composed of three distinct hamlets linked via a spine road:[4] It was built mostly by Countryside Properties, and is cited as an example of Countryside's design philosophy of 'instant maturity' and 'instant community'.

Due to the size of Great Notley, there is little in the way of indoor entertainment facilities.

There are various small businesses operating in Great Notley, including a veterinary centre, a public house (the Prince Louis), an estate agents and a tanning salon.