Good Easter

Good Easter is a village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England. The village is 6 miles northwest from the city and county town of Chelmsford. The parish includes the hamlets of Farmbridge End at the south, and Tye Green, conjoined to Good Easter village. The A1060 road is part of the southern boundary of the parish.

The name 'Good Easter' refers not to the Christian festival 'Easter', but to the 11th-century Estre , from the Old English eowestre meaning a sheep fold, or 'a place at the sheep fold'. By 1200 the place was called Godithestre, the 'Good' part of today's place name derived from the Anglo-Saxon woman's name of Godgyth or Godgifu, who probably held possession of the place. The sister village of High Easter to the north, has the same origin, except that the 'High' part refers to the Old English heah , that place being Heyestre in 1254.

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