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Aythorpe Roding
Aythorpe Roding and the surrounding hamlets - Roundbush, Keerers and Gunners Greens - all lie around a Roman road. More...

Festival Leisure Park in Basildon is one of the town's key attractions.

Basildon
Before 1949, when development on Basildon New Town was begun, the area was home to a collection of small, rural communities, most notably at Laindon, Vange and Pitsea. More...

Billericay
Billericay benefits from the facilities of nearby Basildon - but keeps its old town charm. More...

Blackmore
An attractive village four miles north of Brentwood and three miles east of Chipping Ongar. More...

Bocking
Bocking is a peaceful village forming the northern side of Braintree. More...

Boreham
The village of Boreham lies just to the northeast of Chelmsford. More...

Bradwell Village
Bradwell village now sits astride the A120 east of Braintree - this is the Roman built road of "Stane Street". More...

Boxted
Boxted dates back to Saxon times. More...

Braintree
Braintree is in the very heart of Essex, a pleasant place in which to live and work. More...

Brentwood
Pilgrims travelled through what we now know as Brentwood to reach Thomas Becket's shrine at Canterbury. More...

Brightlingsea
Brightlingsea is a small town at the entrance to the River Colne, between Colchester and Clacton. More...

Burnham on Crouch
Burnham on Crouch is a well known sailing location. More...

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Canvey Island
Canvey Island became habitable in the 1600's when what was once a silt bank was reclaimed. More...

Castle Hedingham
Castle Hedingham is a great place to visit if you want to see a lot of history. More...

Chelmsford
Chelmsford is the county town of Essex and has good links with East Anglia and London. More...

Chigwell
Chigwell is an upmarket residential area which likes to boast that it is the first village outside London. More...

Clacton
Clacton-on-Sea is a typical Essex seaside town, boasting the country's largest pier. More...

Charter Day celebrations in Braintree.

Coggeshall
Coggeshall is a picturesque town packed with timber-framed buildings midway between Colchester and Braintree. More...

Colchester
Colchester is Britain's oldest recorded town and lies on the River Colne. More...

Colne Engaine
The village is named after the River Colne and the Engaine family, who owned the land in the 13th and 14th centuries. More...

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Dedham, Flatford and East Bergholt
Constable Country centres on the villages of Dedham and East Bergholt, and the hamlet of Flatford. More...


Doddinghurst
Although development has taken place at Doddinghurst, it is still very much a part of rural and historic Essex. More...

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Epping
Epping is the centre of the Epping Forest District, which covers Epping, Loughton, Chigwell, Buckhurst Hill, Waltham Abbey and Ongar. More...

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Frinton
The town is split in two by the Colchester to Walton-on-Naze railway line. More...

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Galleywood
The parish of Galleywood dates from about the end of the 19th century. More...


Great Dunmow
Great Dunmow is thought to have been a Roman station. More...

Great Tey
Great Tey is a pretty, rural village on the very edge of Constable Country. More...

Great Wakering
Great Wakering has been described as the driest place in England with an average annual rainfall of well under 20 inches. More...

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Halstead
The town developed over many centuries and stands at a crossroads evolved from tracks made by Bronze Age settlers. More...

Willy Lott's Cottage at Flatford; the house is part of Constable's Haywain painting.

Harlow
Harlow is a thriving new town situated in south-west Essex near to the M11. More...

Harwich
Vikings could have been Harwich's earliest residents - a 9th-10th century ring was excavated from the town. More...

Hawkwell
This attractive village, lies approximately 6 miles in either direction to the nearest large towns of Southend and Rayleigh. More...

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Ingatestone
Elizabeth I once visited Ingatestone Hall, a 16th century mansion. More...

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Langham
Langham is a small village in north Essex, which sits above Colchester and just inside the county's border with Suffolk. More...

Little Dunmow
The original home of the famous Flitch Trials. More...

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Maldon
The historic town of Maldon is one of the oldest in Essex. More...

Manningtree, Mistley and Lawford
Manningtree is proud to be England's smallest town. More...

Marks Tey
The village, which is a blend of old and new houses, has buildings dating back the 16th and 17th centuries. More...

Mersea Island
Mersea Island, whose name is said to mean 'island of the pool or mere', is a yachting resort and well known for its oyster fishing industry. More...

Messing
The village's biggest claim to fame is as the ancestral home of the Bush family - whose members have produced two presidents of the USA. More...


Mountnessing
There was no ancient village of Mountnessing. It was a large parish of scattered farms. More...

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Navestock
Most of the population is at Navestock Side in the east, around a green where cricket has been played since the 18th century. More...

North Weald
Once a rural farming community dating back to Saxon times, today North Weald is primarily suburban in character. More...

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A view of Stock

Ongar
Ongar boasts a number of picturesque towns and villages together with several modern residential areas. More...

Rainham
Rainham is where modern day Essex meets Greater London. More...

Rayleigh
Rayleigh is situated between Chelmsford and Southend and only 35 miles east of the country's capital, London. More...

Rochford
Rochford is an old market town with one of the few remaining cross patterns in England, comprising north, South, East and West Streets. More...

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Saffron Walden
Saffron Walden, lies on the north west of Essex, near Thaxted and Great Dunmow. More...

Silver End
Find out more about this Essex Garden village. More...

South Woodham Ferrers
The town is enclosed by the tidal waters of the River Crouch and incorporates a mix of commercial and residential areas. More...

Southend
Find out more about this south Essex town including its history, pier and football team. More....

Stock
Stock (formerly known as Stock Harvard) is a small village in Essex between Billericay and Chelmsford. More...

St Osyth
A nunnery was built by King Frithwald, first Christian king of the Angles in this village. More...

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Thaxted
The small town of Thaxted can be found situated between Great Dunmow and Saffron Walden. More...

Thurrock
Mammoths once grazed in the Thurrock area, and archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of a jungle cat. More...

Tiptree
Home of the famous jam making company Wilkin and Sons. More...

Tollesbury
Tollesbury is a small village on the East Coast of Essex, at the mouth of the River Blackwater. More...

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Waltham Abbey
The town was founded by the Vikings, who built its first church. More...

Walton-on-the-Naze
The original village of Walton is now nine miles out to sea, its old church having fallen into the sea in 1798. More...

Wickford
The town's claim to fame in the business world is the agricultural manufacturers Darby, who invented the Darby Digger. More...

Witham
The town of Witham is located at the very heart of Essex, virtually midway between Colchester and Chelmsford. More...

Wivenhoe
The village has a long history of fishing and boat building, these being its main industries. More...

Writtle
Writtle was featured in the Domesday Book in 1086 as having a population of 900 and it is from about this time that records date the All Saints Church. More...

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