15 Facts About Wivenhoe

Wivenhoe is a town and civil parish in north-eastern Essex, England, approximately 3 miles south-east of Colchester.

Much of lower Wivenhoe is a designated conservation area, with many streets being of particular architectural interest.

Place-name Wivenhoe is Saxon in origin, deriving from the personal name Wifa's or Wife's spur or promontory .

Wivenhoe developed as a port and until the late 19th century was effectively a port for Colchester, as large ships were unable to navigate any further up the River Colne, which widens here into its estuary.

Wivenhoe Park, bordering on the town of Colchester, is the location for the University of Essex.

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Wivenhoe House was designed for Isaac Martin Rebow in 1759 by Thomas Reynolds; the park itself was designed by Richard Woods.

Wivenhoe is located just over one hour away from Stansted Airport and 30 minutes from Harwich International Port.

Wivenhoe has a population of between nine and ten thousand people with a mixture of students from the University of Essex, a long-standing artistic community, and commuters.

Town has a number of sports and leisure clubs and societies: Wivenhoe Sailing Club's clubhouse is just downstream of the river barrier.

Wivenhoe has two primary schools: Broomgrove Infant and Junior, and Millfields Primary.

Wivenhoe manor was owned by John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford and was passed down with the earldom until sold by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford in 1584.

Wivenhoe was the son of yacht-designer John Harvey and grandson of Thomas Harvey, yacht builder.

Wivenhoe was the home of actress Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple in the BBC adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels and children's author, journalist, and writer Leila Berg .

Wivenhoe is a visiting professor in the performing and visual arts at Nottingham Trent University, a companion of the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and an Honorary Fellow of the Dartington College of Arts.

Poet and political activist Anna Mendelson was a resident of Wivenhoe and associated with the short-lived British terrorist organisation the Angry Brigade whilst a student at Essex University.