GREAT, a town of England, county of Chester, near the shore of the estuary of the Dee, 11 miles N.W. of Chester. It has an ancient church with a handsome front and a tower; Methodist, Independent, Calvinist, and Roman Catholic churches; and several schools. The town depends chiefly for its prosperity on the summer visitors, who resort hither for the sake of the sea-bathing. Pop. (1851) 1524.