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Southey Green is a hamlet near Sible Hedingham, in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England. Other nearby hamlets include Forry's Green, Cobbs Fenn and Harrowcross.

Gosfield is a village in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It is located around two miles west of the town of Halstead. Places of note include the following: Gosfield Hall: a country house and Grade I listed building, dating back to 1545. Gosfield School: an independent school. Gosfield Sandpits, a Local Nature Reserve.

Gosfield Hall is a country house in Gosfield, near Braintree in Essex, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The house was built in 1545 by Sir John Wentworth, a member of Cardinal Wolsey’s household, and hosted royal visits by Queen Elizabeth I and her grand retinue throughout the middle of the 16th century. John Wentworth, High Sheriff of Essex, who died in 1613, left "a splendid inheritance" to his eldest son, Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, who ruined the family through extravagance. Sir Thomas Millington was in residence by 1691. He reconstructed the Grand Salon which remained the state banqueting hall for a long time. During the same period he had guest rooms built above the Salon. His crest, a double-headed eagle, may be seen above the central doors on the courtyard side. The mansion was built round a central courtyard, and the west front still has a fine Tudor façade. The east front was remodelled by John Knight after he came into possession in 1715 and again later in the 18th century for Earl Nugent (1702–1788), who also remodelled the south front and created the mile-long lake. The magnificent ballroom was added and the deer park landscaped for the property to become a family home for his son-in-law the Marquis of Buckingham (1753–1813). Later during the French Revolution, Gosfield Hall became the home of the Comte de Provence, the future King Louis XVIII, and his wife Marie-Josephine-Louise of Savoy who had fled France to live in exile in grand style, with more than 350 courtiers and staff in attendance from 1807 to 1809. Much restoration work was done by Samuel Courtauld who owned the house between 1854 and 1881. In the early 20th century the house was virtually abandoned, but it was used as a base for troops during the Second World War.More recently, the Hall was owned by the Country Houses Association until it went into liquidation in 2003.It is operated as a wedding venue.

Gosfield School is an English co-educational independent school in Gosfield, in the Braintree district of Essex. It was founded in 1929.

Gosfield Sandpits is an 8.3 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Gosfield, north of Braintree in Essex. It is owned by Gosfield Parish Council, and managed by the Parish Council and Braintree District Council.The site is an area of former sandpits which has around a mile of footpaths, woodland, an open glade and many ponds. There is a wide variety of trees, and flowers include wood anemones and bluebells. It is described by Natural England as an area of outstanding natural beauty.There is access by footpaths from The Street and Halstead Road.

The Yellow House School is a 13–17 mixed, private special school and sixth form in Sible Hedingham, Essex, England. It was established in June 2002 by Debbie Pester and caters for children with Tourette's, ADHD and ADD, autism spectrum disorders, and other sensory issues.

Sible Hedingham ( SIB-əl HED-ing-əm) is a large village and civil parish in the Colne Valley in the Braintree District of Essex, in England. It has a population of 3,994 according to the 2011 census. Sible Hedingham lies in the northern corner of Essex, close to both the Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders. The village covers some 2,123 hectares (5,246 acres). The Domesday Book of 1086 lists the village together with Hedingham Castle amongst the lands given to Roger Bigod by the king. The land included woodland for 70 pigs that was in total valued at £4. A variation on the village name is "Hengham Sybyle".In 1863, Sible Hedingham was the site of one of the last 19th-century witchcraft accusations in England. The victim is now known as "Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham". The village is twinned with the French commune of Choisy-au-Bac, located in Picardy region, Oise department (c. 80 km north of Paris, near Compiègne).

White Ash Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural, in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It is a little over a mile west of the town of Halstead; the village of Gosfield is also nearby.It comprises residential properties, 6 of which were built in the late 1890s by the Courtauld building company as accommodation for teachers at Gosfield residential school. The remainder of the properties are mostly cottages. The Whitehouse business park is also located at the edge of White Ash Green.

Almshouse Green is a hamlet in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It is located between the villages of Wethersfield & Sible Hedingham.

Sible and Castle Hedingham railway station was a station in Sible Hedingham, Essex. It was 59 miles 56 chains (96.08 km) from London Liverpool Street via Marks Tey. It closed for passengers in 1962.

Bovingdon Hall Woods is a 69.4-hectare (171-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Braintree in Essex. It is composed of several woods, including Parkhall Wood, Bovingdon Wood, Shoulder of Mutton Wood, and Maid's Wood.The site is coppice woodland of medieval origin on chalky boulder clay. It has unusual woodland types, such as small-leaved lime and plateau alder. Other trees include sessile and pedunculate oak, ash, maple and hornbeam, with occasional wild service tree. The understory has elder, hazel, field maple and hawthorn, while the ground flora is donated by bramble. There are many natural ponds and dells.The site is private land with no public access.

Hedingham Secondary School and Sixth Form is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, situated in Christmas Fields in Sible Hedingham, Essex, England.