Copt Hall Marshes on the remote and beautiful Blackwater Estuary is a noted site for overwintering birds, and can be viewed from a waymarked circular route....
Hatfield Forest is an ancient royal hunting forest. No other forest on earth evokes the atmosphere of a medieval hunting forest so completely. The ancient trees of the forest are like magnificent living sculptures, peaceful giants worn and fra...
Picturesque watermill. The mill was originally built as a fishing lodge in 1591 and features stepped 'Dutch' gables. It was converted in the 19th century to a mill for fulling (a process in cloth manufacture) and later flour milling. The waterwheel i...
13th-century monastic barn. This majestic building is one of the oldest surviving timber-framed barns in Europe and was originally part of a Cistercian monastery. Restored in the 1980s by The Coggeshall Grange Barn Trust, Braintree DC and Essex CC, i...
Paycocke's is a merchant's house, dating from c.1500. Paycocke's is a fine half-timbered house is evidence of the wealth generated by the East Anglian wool trade in the 15th and 16th centuries. It contains unusually rich panelling and woodcarv...
11th-century earthwork. This motte and bailey mound is what remains of the castle erected by Sweyn of Essex, dating from the period following the Norman invasion of 1066. Display boards explain the main points of interest....
Danbury Commons and Blakes Wood is a large open area of heathland, gorse and coppice adjoining ancient woodland Along with Lingwood Common, Danbury Common forms the second largest area of commonland in Essex after Epping Forest. Traditionally c...
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