Great Totham is a village and civil parish in Maldon district, Essex, England, and midway between Chelmsford and Colchester.

The village includes the Island of Osea in the Blackwater estuary and is separated into two parts, north and south.

According to the old maps, before the time of the enclosures, the outskirts of Great Totham North were part of Tiptree Heath, which was then a haunt of smugglers, attested in the name of a house in Mountains Road called Spirits Hall.

Nearby, and adjoining the small village green, is the former Compasses public house which dates to the late 17th century.

[3] The Prince of Wales pub in Totham South was gutted by fire in 1990 with loss of historic features, but it has been rebuilt and reopened.

Local people assisted at the time and this village green became the base for recovery operations by RAF personnel.

Great Totham is part of the Witham parliamentary constituency, and is represented in the House of Commons by Priti Patel of the Conservative Party.