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Learn all about England’s oldest recorded town with City Sightseeing Colchester. Journey through Colchester’s streets and become absorbed in the town’s unique heritage and history. Colchester today is a thriving, modern town with many great...
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...
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 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...
Since St Katherines became The Heritage Centre it has become the home of Art, Camera, Needlework and Patchwork Groups as well as an historical group. They have Art, Hobbies, Militaria and Photographic Exhibitions. There is a Lifeboat Week as well as ...
Chelmsford Cathedral is no vast, vaulted hall. Its qualities are more jewel like: small, light, colourful, precious and cherished. When you walk in the building it seems to welcome you. It lifts the spirit and its silence sings. Although we receiv...
Hylands House, in Chelmsford, Essex, is a stunning Grade II* listed property, spectacularly restored to its former glory and situated in 574 acres of historic landscaped parkland....
Aythorpe Roding Windmill was built before 1770 and worked until 1936. It has been restored to working order by Essex County Council and ground corn in 1982. There is evidence that the mill was comprehensively modernised late in the 19thC....
Mountfitchet Castle is a Norman Motte and Bailey Castle and Village, re-constructed on its original historic ancient site, complete with many different buildings, siege weapons and animals roaming freely throughout the 10 acre site, providing a uniqu...
Explore the fascinating remnants of one of the great monastic foundations of the Middle Ages at this important site, based in the historic market town of Waltham Abbey. With origins dating back to the early 11th century, the site adopted many rel...
Hadleigh Castle and Country Park is set in the romantic ruins of a royal castle overlooking the Essex marshes. Hadleigh was begun in about 1215 by Hubert de Burgh, but extensively refortified by Edward III during the Hundred Years War, becoming a...
Tilbury Fort on the Thames estuary has protected London’s seaward approach from the 16th century through to the Second World War. Henry VIII built the first fort here, and Queen Elizabeth I famously rallied her army nearby to face the threat of ...
Sir Thomas Audley was given the lands of Walden Abbey by Henry VIII, and adapted the abbey buildings as his mansion. His grandson Thomas, first Earl of Suffolk, rebuilt this mansion between 1610 and 1614. The new Audley End was truly palatial in s...
One of the finest surviving medieval barns in eastern England, tree-ring dated to the mid-15th century, with a breathtaking aisled interior and crown post roof, the product of some 400 oaks....
This fine Elizabethan mansion features some of the earliest external Renaissance architectural detail in the country, and two rare and outstanding sets of 16th century wall paintings of mythical and Biblical subjects. Hill Hall has now been divide...
Mistley Towers is defined by two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776....
The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded about 1100. An impressive example of early Norman architecture, built in flint and reused Roman brick, the church displays massive circular pillars and round arches and an el...
The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum - pre-Roman Colchester. There are also many pre-Roman graves hereabouts, including Lexden Tumulus, allegedly the burial place of the British chieft...
This elaborate pinnacled 15th-century gatehouse, in East Anglian flushwork, is the sole survivor of the Benedictine abbey of St John. It was stormed by Parliamentarian soldiers during the Civil War siege of 1648....
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