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Great Saling
White Hart in Great Saling
Great Saling is located in Essex
Great Saling
Great Saling
Location within Essex
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
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Essex
51°54′N 0°28′E / 51.900°N 0.467°E / 51.900; 0.467

Great Saling is a village in the civil parish of The Salings,[1] in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It lies 4 miles (6 km) north-west of the town of Braintree.

History

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Great Saling was an ancient parish in the Hinckford hundred of Essex. As well as Great Saling village, the parish included surrounding rural areas including the hamlet of Blake End.[2] The parish church is dedicated to St James, and is in the Diocese of Chelmsford. It is Grade II* listed.[3]

Large elm tree which formerly stood on the village green

The village had on its green what was reputed to be the largest elm tree in England. With a girth of 22 feet 6 inches and a height of 40 metres, the elm was identified by the botanist R. H. Richens as an Ulmus × hollandica hybrid, before it succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease in the 1970s.[4][5][6]

RAF Andrews Field, sometimes called RAF Great Saling, was built near the village by the United States Army Air Forces as the first aerodrome to be built by the Americans on British soil during the Second World War. Work on the aerodrome was started in July 1942. It was named after Frank Maxwell Andrews, an American general who was killed in May 1943, shortly before the aerodrome opened.[7]

In 2019 the parish was merged with the neighbouring parish of Bardfield Saling to form a new civil parish called The Salings.[8] At the 2011 census (the last before the abolition of the civil parish), Great Saling had a population of 282.[9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The Salings". Mapit. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Great Saling Parish". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  3. ^ Historic England. "Church of St James (1147381)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  4. ^ Hanson, M. W. (1990). Essex elm. London: Essex Field Club. ISBN 978-0-905637-15-0.
  5. ^ R. H. Richens, Elm (Cambridge 1983), p.243
  6. ^ Photograph of the Great Saling elm: Plate 402 in Elwes & Henry's Trees of Great Britain & Ireland, Vol. VII, pp 1848-1929; private publication, Edinburgh (1913) "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ "History of Andrewsfield". Andrewsfield Aviation. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  8. ^ Langston, Brett. "Essex Registration District". UK BMD. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  9. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
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