Great Stambridge is a village and former civil parish, 15 miles (24 km) south east of Chelmsford,[1] now in the parish of Stambridge, in the Rochford district, in the county of Essex, England.

[2] Great Stambridge has a church called St Mary & All Saints[3] and a pub called The Royal Oak.

[5] Great Stambridge was recorded in the Domesday Book as Sanforda.

[7] Great Stambridge was in the Rochford hundred.

[8] On 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished and merged with Little Stambridge to form Stambridge parish.