{{Short description|Village in Essex, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox UK place |country = England |official_name= Goldhanger |coordinates = {{coord|51.7455|0.7581|display=inline,title}} |population = 751 | population_ref = (Parish, 2021)<ref name=2021census>{{cite web |title=2021 Census Parish Profiles |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021_pp |website=NOMIS |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=31 March 2025}} (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)</ref> |civil_parish = Goldhanger |shire_district= Maldon |shire_county = Essex |region= East of England |constituency_westminster= Witham |post_town= Maldon |postcode_district = CM9 |postcode_area = CM |dial_code= 01621 |os_grid_reference= |static_image=St._Peter's_church,_Goldhanger,_Essex_-_geograph.org.uk_-_172845.jpg |static_image_width=240px }}
'''Goldhanger''' is a village and a civil parish on the B1026 road in the Maldon District, in the county of Essex, England. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 751.
Goldhanger had an agricultural museum<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.museumsinessex.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=26 |title=Museums in Essex |access-date=16 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727102303/http://www.museumsinessex.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=26 |archive-date=27 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and has a church dedicated to St Peter. Goldhanger is at the head of a short creek, on the north side of the estuary of the River Blackwater, {{convert|4|mi}} east northeast of the town of Maldon.
There are eight roads in Goldhanger: Head Street, Fish Street, Church Street, St Peter's Close, Maldon Road, Hall Estate, Sorrell Close, and finally Blind Lane.
The village is directly between Maldon and Tolleshunt D'Arcy and also has direct passage to the River Blackwater.
The place-name ''Goldhanger'' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Goldhangra''. The name means 'slope where marigold grew', from the Old English ''golde'' meaning ''marigold''.<ref>Eilert Ekwall, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.200.</ref>
==Notable people== *John Christopher Atkinson (1814–1900), writer and antiquary *Jeremy Bamber (b. 1961), farmer, convicted of the White House Farm murders, lived in Goldhanger<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wilkes|first=Roger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TkPLDwAAQBAJ|title=Blood Relations: The Definitive Account of Jeremy Bamber and the White House Farm Murders|date=2020-06-04|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=978-1-4721-4519-2|language=en}}</ref>
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== External links== *[https://www.redpenguin.net/walks/goldhanger/ Walking around Goldhanger] *[http://www.gafc.se/ Goldhanger Argyle Football Club] {{Commons category-inline|Goldhanger}}
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Category:Villages in Essex Category:Populated coastal places in Essex Category:Civil parishes in Essex Category:Maldon District
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