Editing Witham (section)

==Economy and facilities==
Witham has a mainly linear town centre, focused on the high street and two shopping precincts to form a cross that bisects the high street; these are the Newlands Shopping Centre of 1970s design to the north and the Grove Centre of a 1980s brick design to the south. There are also a range of small shops, restaurants, pubs, major high-street banks and several national commercial chains. The town also has five supermarkets: Tesco in the Grove Centre, Morrisons near the railway station, Asda on Highfields Road, Aldi at the southern entrance to the town and Lidl that recently opened towards the centre of town on the old Bramston sports centre site.

A significant industrial presence remains in the town, concentrated on three industrial estates on the eastern side of the town close to the junction with the A12. There are also commercial offices located in the town centre area.

In March 2007, [[Crittall Windows]] closed its Braintree factory and returned to Witham to occupy a new factory on the Freebournes Industrial Estate. The factory Crittall moved into was built for J.L. French in 2001, but never used for production. The new Crittall factory is visible on the right hand side of the road exiting Witham towards Colchester, via the A12.

In December 2013, the financial service provider Cofunds relocated to the former Marsh building on the Grove, bringing approximately 600 jobs to the town.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Cofunds-Witham-expected-boost-trade-town/story-17637877-detail/story.html |title=Cofunds move to Witham expected to boost trade in town &#124; Essex Chronicle |access-date=6 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906160235/http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Cofunds-Witham-expected-boost-trade-town/story-17637877-detail/story.html |archive-date=6 September 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>