Notable Residents
- Lord Bassam, the Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords, grew up in the village and attended the local primary school.
- John Sydenham Furnivall, a former Cambridge University scholar and later British colonial administrator to Burma, was born in the village.
- Maud de Ufford, Countess of Essex, who was arrested and later pardoned for conspiring against King Henry IV of England in 1404.
- Jeremy Spake, famous for his role in BBC's Airport, resides in the village.
- Michael Steele, involved in the 1995 Rettendon murders, of which he and accomplice Jack Whomes were found guilty of murder in 1998 at the Old Bailey. The murders were used as the basis for the 2000 film Essex Boys, and 2007 film Rise of the Footsoldier. Both men have always protested their innocence.
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