page_title: Great Tey
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Great Tey / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: Map showing Great Tey, Essex
context_page_description: Great Tey is a village and civil parish near the villages of Marks Tey and Little Tey in the Colchester borough of Essex, England, located approximately six miles west of Colchester.
context_section_description: Great Tey is situated near Marks Tey railway station which is on the Great Eastern Main Line, and is a junction for the Sudbury Branch Line to Sudbury. It is near the A12 road, the A120 road and the A1124 road. It is part of a group of villages called the Teys, consisting of Marks Tey, Little Tey and Great Tey. The village is situated north of the river Roman. The parish of Great Tey is a small rural community that contains a few local amenities such as village pub, a Norman church and a post office. In addition to this the parish has its own community website providing various details and key dates for members of the community.
  In 1870 John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Great Tey as:
  "TEY (Great), a parish in Lexden district, Essex; 2¼ miles NW of Marks-Tey Junction r. station, and 3½ NE of Coggeshall. It has a post-office under Kelvedon, and a fair on Trinity Monday".
  Great Tey had a population of 911 according to the 2011 census.
caption: 1945 map showing Great Tey and the surrounding area
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