WAKERING (Great), a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Rochford district, Essex. The village stands near the coast, 4¼ miles E by N of Southend r. station; and has a post-office‡ under Southend, and a fair on 25 July.—The parish includes Rusley and Great Potton islands; and comprises 2,784 acres of land, and 2,700 of water. Real property, £5,794; of which £40 are in fisheries. Pop. in 1851, 905; in 1861, 1,018. Houses, 199. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £233.* Patron, the Bishop of R. The church is good: and there are Independent and Wesleyan chapels, and a national school.—The sub-district contains 6 parishes and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 49,200. Pop., 4,056. Houses, 617.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))