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Southend Pier

Southend Pier is the town's historical icon as well as being the longest pleasure pier in the world, at 1.33 miles. A great deal of work has taken ...

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Filed Under: Essex Tagged With: Attraction, Theme Park

Tilbury Fort

The artillery fort at Tilbury on the Thames estuary protected London's seaward approach from the 16th century through to World War II. Henry VIII ...

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Saffron Walden Museum

Saffron Walden Museum opened in 1835. With wide-ranging collections, from moccasins and mummy cases to mammoth tusks and Wallace the lion, it still ...

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Saffron Walden Castle

Walden Castle, is early 12th century keep built on a artificially heightened hill. Keep later used as semaphore station, barn and lime kiln. The ...

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Pleshy Castle

Pleshey Castle is probably Essex's best example of an earth-built Norman motte and bailey castle. The whole village of Pleshey still lies within its ...

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Ongar Castle

Norman motte and bailey castle with sub-rectangular village enclosure. It was probably built by Richard de Lucy in the 12th century, (mention is made ...

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Hedingham Castle

Hedingham Castle

Hedingham Castle's Norman keep, 110 feet high, was built c.1140 by Aubrey de Vere and is still owned by one of his descendants, The Honourable Thomas ...

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Hadleigh Castle

Hadleigh Castle

The romantic ruins of a royal castle overlooking the Essex marshes. Hadleigh was begun in about 1215 by Hubert de Burgh, but extensively refortified ...

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Colchester Castle

Colchester Castle Museum

A visit to Colchester Castle Museum takes you through 2000 years of some of the most important events in British history. Once capital of Roman ...

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Filed Under: Essex Tagged With: Castles, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Audley End House

Sandford Award Winner in 2007. King Henry VIII gave Walden Abbey to Sir Thomas Audley, who transformed it into his mansion, Audley End. Despite ups ...

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Filed Under: Essex Tagged With: English Heritage, Houses, Sandford Award Winners

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