Wivenhoe occurs as Saxon name meaning Wifa's (Wiven) Ridge (hoe). Wifa was a individual or even tribe the town's region belonged to prior to a Norman Conquest. Too dating to instance of the Saxons is the places of the town's number one church: St. Mary-a-Virgin.

Famous Citizens

Wivenhoe is the front yard of the poet Martin Newell who every year as well attends & is a independent star at the Could fair, which is in the King George VI swimming field. It was too residence to BAFTA-nominated actress Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple in the BBC adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels.

It was when the favorite watering hole of Francis Bacon, the famed British creative person, & many journalists & writers develop been depending in the moo prevent of the town - George Gale (former editor of The Spectator, Daily Telegraph cartoonist and Daily Express columnist) and Peregrine Worsthorne, (former editor of the Sunday Telegraph) both got homes there. Present residents include Prof Hugh Brogan, creator of the Penguin History of United states, Auriol Ashworth, previous editor of the Days Education Supplement, John Ashworth, chairperson of the British Library, Professor Anthony Everitt, previous Arts Council secretary general & writer of right-selling life story Cicero, and Roddy Ashworth, Essex primary newsman of the East Anglian Daily Days & nighttime news editor of the Sunday Express. Wivenhoe is too a residence of illustrious sculptor Guy Taplin & a sign above the entrance to its station park inspired so resident director Steve Roberts to create a animatronic TV hit of the Eighties, Max Headroom. Respected film & TV director Gerry Poulson - that has been a human in a chair for all about from either the early Lxx's Black Beauty, through Heartbeat and London's Burning - also lives here on the "frontage" of the River Colne, Essex.

Actor-manager Sir John Martin-Harvey was born within the village in 1863 and is commemorated by a blue plaque in Quay Home, one of his childhood homes. He was a boy of racing yacht-designer John Harvey & grandson of Thomas Harvey, builder of the yacht Volante which competed in the number 1 America's Cup in 1851.

When you took a 1st half of a nineteenth century, Wivenhoe Hall was the front yard of William Brummell, brother of the extra noted Beau Brummell.

Wivenhoe Park, okay, section of the University of Essex was the front yard for many centuries of the Rebow personal, descendent of Flemish clothweavers from Colchester.