Bocking Windmill is a post mill with a 2-storey roundhouse, built in 1721 and moved to its present site in 1829. It ceased working at the outbreak of the First World War and was renovated externally in the 1980s and internally in the 1990s. Most m ...
At Braintree Museum the story of the Braintree District and its diverse industrial and cultural history unfolds. The main galleries examine the development of the area from prehistory to the twenty-first century, focusing upon the textile and manu ...
The Town Hall is without doubt one of the town's most beautiful buildings. Donated to the people of Braintree by the Courtauld family in 1928, this Georgian style building is steeped in history and provides a perfect environment for all sorts of occ ...
Cressing Temple takes its unusual name from the medieval monks of the Knights Templar who founded the two vast 13th century timber barns, which form the centrepiece of this delightful rural estate. The Tudor Walled Garden is inspired by an age wh ...
Dorothy L Sayers Centre houses a collection of over 400 volumes of her novels, essays, plays, poetry and religious writing together with biographies, critical and other allied works and publications of the Dorothy L Sayers Society, including the volu ...
Feering and Kelvedon Local History Museum displays are open to the public in one large room and two smaller ones, in the old British School at Kelvedon. Documentary archives are kept in controlled conditions in a fourth room; subject to proof of iden ...
Feeringbury Manor Garden has been made over the last 30 years and is now well established. It surrounds a pretty 14th century house. The garden of Feeringbury Manor is filled with flowers and at all times of the year there are interesting plants t ...
Finchingfield Windmill is a small, simple, mid-18th century feudal or estate-type postmill with a wooden wind shaft and 1 pair of stones. ...
The Flitch Way passes through 15 miles of countryside along the former Bishop's Stortford to Braintree railway in the heart of rural Essex. Its name comes from a medieval ceremony, which originated in Little Dunmow and which still takes place every f ...
Great Bardfield Cottage Museum is a 19th century village lock-up and recently renovated 16th century charity cottage housing agricultural and domestic artefacts from 19th and 20th centuries, plus rural crafts such as straw-plaiting and corn-dollies. ...
Great Notley Country Park covers some 100 acres of open space, which is managed for the benefit of wildlife and the community. The site was formally arable farmland and has been transformed into a mixture of wetland and open grassland. Each of these ...
The vineyard was planted in 1990 on a south facing gentle slope and nestles beside a beautifully built Grade 1 listed brick and tile barn built by Anne of Cleeves in the mid-Sixteenth century. As the soil and climate are somewhat similar to the Al ...
Here at the Original Great Maze you can discover the aMazing maize maze, full of adventure and fun! Weave your way through miles of maize pathways to finally conquer the maze challenge. If you are new to one of the greatest maze challenges in the wo ...