Wimbish is a small rural village and civil parish located 4 miles (6 km) south-east from Saffron Walden, in the Uttlesford district of Essex in the East of England.

[2] The first recorded mention of the village was in 1042, when it was referred to as Winebisc.

It was subsequently referred to as Wimbeis in the Domesday Book.

The church tower was partly destroyed by lightning in 1756, and was rebuilt in brick but was later taken down again in 1883.

[5] Women in the ward had the third highest life expectancy at birth, 96.5 years, of any ward in England and Wales in 2016.