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Essex Tourism
Website: www.visitessex.com
Principal Towns: Chelmsford, Colchester, Clacton-on-Sea, Saffron Walden, Harlow, Southend, Basildon
Visit Essex
Between London and the sea lies the ancient Saxon county of Essex. Traces of medieval times can be found in delightful small towns such as Saffron Walden , Coggeshall and Thaxted . Medieval industries, including weaving and saffron growing, created great wealth and financed many beautiful houses and fine churches. Close to the European mainland, Essex has been shaped by varied cultures and played a part in major historical events. The Romans made Colchester their capital while the Normans left their mark with castles at Colchester, Castle Hedingham and Stansted. All of these remain and are open for today's visitor. Within the last hundred years Chelmsford became the birthplace of a technological revolution when Marconi established the world's first radio factory.
With its long coastline, Essex boasts a real maritime flavour. The seaside resorts are perhaps best known. Southend , Clacton and Walton offer all the fun of the seaside and more besides. Southend has established a reputation for an exciting calendar of events throughout the year while in Clacton and the other 'Sunshine Coast Resorts', the emphasis is on traditional family entertainment. Both Clacton and Southend are famous for their parks and gardens and offer stunning displays in the summer.
Less well known is the quieter side of the coast where ports such as Harwich and Maldon have enormous character and historical interest. Coastal towns like Burnham-on-Crouch and Brightlingsea come alive with yachts during the boating season. Away from the towns, much of the coast is remote and undisturbed and of great importance for nature conservation.
Inland, ancient woodlands such as Epping and Hatfield Forests add interest to a landscape characterised by thatched cottages, timber-framed farmhouses and the unmistakable outline of windmills. There are some lovely country houses with beautiful gardens. Audley End House , Ingatestone Hall and Layer Marney Tower are amongst the finest and open regularly to the public. Essex remains a rural county with much of its land still in agricultural production. The rolling countryside is typified by golden wheatfields. Rural events and traditions are kept alive and offer the visitor an interesting day out. Market towns make pleasant places to browse or shop for local crafts and gifts.
The following districts make up the county:
Essex, Chelmsford, Uttlesford, Braintree, Maldon, Colchester, Tendring, Epping Forest, Harlow, Brentwood, Basildon, Rochford and Castle Point
Useful Contacts
Essex Tourism - 0871 716 2199 Calls cost less than 10p per minute
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Destinations
Recommended Hotels See Map
- Holiday Inn Basildon Basildon *featured*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Parking, Restaurant, Conference Facilities - White Hart Hotel Braintree *featured*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Parking, Restaurant, Conference Facilities - De Rougemont Manor Hotel Brentwood *featured*
Licensed, Restaurant - Marygreen Manor Brentwood *featured*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Parking, Restaurant, Satellite TV, Conference Facilities - Whitehall Hotel Broxted *featured*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Parking, Restaurant, Conference Facilities - Channels Lodge Chelmsford *featured*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Parking, Restaurant, Satellite TV - The Oakland Hotel Chelmsford *featured*
Licensed, Historic, Restaurant, Satellite TV, Conference Facilities - Dedham Hall & Fountain House Dedham *featured*
Licensed, Parking, Parking, Restaurant - Maison Talbooth Dedham *featured*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Parking, Restaurant, Conference Facilities - Milsoms Hotel Dedham *featured*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Parking, Restaurant, Satellite TV - Stansted Skyline Hotel Great Dunmow *featured*
Licensed, Restaurant - Bull Hotel Halstead *featured*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Parking, Restaurant - Pier at Harwich Harwich *featured*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Parking, Restaurant, Satellite TV, Conference Facilities - Five Lakes Hotel, Golf, Country Club & Spa Maldon *featured*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Pool, Gym, TennisCourt, Parking, Restaurant, Conference Facilities - Saffron Hotel Saffron Walden *featured*
Licensed, Restaurant
Hotels bookable online See Map
- Blueberry Hotel Braintree Braintree *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant - Holiday Inn Express Braintree Braintree *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant, Conference Facilities - County Hotel Chelmsford *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant - Comfort Hotel Clacton Clacton-on-Sea *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant, Satellite TV, Conference Facilities - Geisha Hotel Clacton-on-Sea *book online*
Licensed, Historic, Restaurant, Satellite TV - Best Western Marks Tey Hotel Colchester *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant, Conference Facilities - Ramada Colchester Colchester *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant, Satellite TV, Conference Facilities - Red Lion Hotel Colchester *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant - Rose & Crown Hotel Colchester *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant, Conference Facilities - Stoke by Nayland Club Hotel Colchester *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant, Conference Facilities - The Lodge Earls Colne *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Pool, Gym, Restaurant, Satellite TV - Prested Hall Feering *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Pool, Gym, TennisCourt, Restaurant - Orsett Hall Hotel and Conference Centre Grays *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Gym, Restaurant, Satellite TV, Conference Facilities - Park Inn Thurrock Grays *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, TennisCourt, Restaurant, Satellite TV, Conference Facilities - Oasis Hotel Harlow *book online*
Licensed, Restaurant - Park Inn Harlow Harlow *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Gym, Restaurant, Satellite TV, Conference Facilities - The Benbridge Hotel Heybridge *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant, Satellite TV - Kingscliff Hotel Holland on Sea *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant - Royal Hotel Purfleet *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant - Maison Renouf Rochford *book online*
Licensed, Restaurant - Red Lion Hinxton Saffron Walden *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant, Satellite TV - Hilton London Stansted Airport Stansted *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Pool, Gym, Restaurant, Satellite TV, Conference Facilities - The Balmoral Hotel Westcliff on Sea *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant, Satellite TV - Menzies Prince Regent Woodford Bridge *book online*
Licensed, Parking, Historic, Restaurant, Conference Facilities
More Essex Hotels
Bed and Breakfast See Map
- Frasers Basildon *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Frasers Battlesbridge *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Grange Guest House Bishops Stortford *featured*
TV in rooms, Historic - Brentwood Guesthouse Brentwood *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Inspected - The Royal Burnham Yacht Club Burnham-on-Crouch *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - South Lodge Hotel Chelmsford *featured*
TV in rooms, Children Welcome, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - The Sandrock Clacton on Sea *featured*
TV in rooms - Chudleigh Hotel Clacton-on-Sea *featured*
TV in rooms - Levere House Clacton-on-Sea *featured*
TV in rooms - The Langtry Hotel Clacton-on-Sea *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Park House Colchester *featured*
TV in rooms, Children Welcome, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Polstead Lodge Colchester *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Riverside Hotel Colchester *featured*
TV in rooms, Historic, Parking - Pheasant Suites Elmstead *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Stansted Lodge Elsenham *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Elmcroft Guest House Epping *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Blatches Farm Felsted *featured*
TV in rooms - Rothmans Bed & Breakfast Great Baddow *featured*
TV in rooms - Harwood Guest House Great Dunmow *featured*
TV in rooms, Children Welcome, No Smoking, Historic, Inspected, Parking - Homelye Farm Great Dunmow *featured*
TV in rooms, Children Welcome, No Smoking, Historic, Inspected, Parking - Tower Hotel Harwich *featured*
TV in rooms, Historic - Aberdeen Guest House Ilford *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Cranbrook Hotel Ilford *featured*
TV in rooms - Woodville Guest House Ilford *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking, Disabled - Grand Hotel Leigh On Sea *featured*
TV in rooms - Roslyns Little Easton *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Latchmead Little Hallingbury *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Limburn House Maldon *featured*
TV in rooms, Children Welcome, No Smoking, Historic, Disabled - Oakland Hotel South Woodham Ferrers *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic - Bideford House Southend on Sea *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Camelia Hotel Southend on Sea *featured*
TV in rooms, Historic - Ilfracombe House Hotel Southend on Sea *featured*
TV in rooms, Children Welcome, Historic, Inspected, Parking - Roslin Beach Hotel Southend on Sea *featured*
TV in rooms - Pebbles Guesthouse Southend-on-Sea *featured*
TV in rooms, Children Welcome, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Chimneys Stansted *featured*
TV in rooms, Historic, Parking - Little Bullocks Farm Stansted *featured*
TV in rooms, Children Welcome, No Smoking, Historic, Inspected, Parking, Disabled - Remarc Guest House Stansted *featured*
TV in rooms, Historic, Parking - Stansted Rest Stansted *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - The Laurels Stansted *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - The White House Stansted *featured*
TV in rooms - Greenways Lodge Stansted Airport *featured*
TV in rooms, Children Welcome, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Chimneys Guest House Stansted Mountfitchet *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking - Cowels Farm Stables B&B Thaxted *featured*
TV in rooms, No Smoking, Historic, Parking
Pubs & Inns
- Jolly Brewers Bishops Stortford *book online*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Tower Arms Brentwood *featured*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Cricketers Clavering *book online*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - White Hart Coggeshall *book online*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - George of Colchester Colchester *book online*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Globe Hotel Colchester *book online*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Kings Arms Colchester *featured*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Old Courthouse Inn Colchester *book online*
Food, Children Welcome, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Saracens Head Hotel Great Dunmow *featured*
Food, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Stansted Skyline Hotel Great Dunmow *book online*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - The Swan Great Easton Great Dunmow *book online*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - The Waggon & Horses Great Yeldham *featured*
Food, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - The Dog Inn Halstead *book online*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - White Hart Inn Halstead *book online*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Green Man Hotel Harlow *book online*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - The Fox Inn Harlow *book online*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Britannia Inn Hotel Ilford *featured*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - The Cricketers Arms Rickling Green *book online*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Queens Head Inn Saffron Walden *featured*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - The Yew Tree Stansted *featured*
Food, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Swan Hotel Thaxted *featured*
Food, Historic, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards
Self-Catering See Map
- Folkards Barn Brightlingsea *book online*
Pub Nearby, Garden, Pets Allowed, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Hedingham Castle Castle Hedingham *book online*
Pub Nearby, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Channels Apartments Chelmsford *book online*
Pub Nearby, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Channels Cottage Chelmsford *featured*
Pub Nearby, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Featherdown Farm Colchester *book online*
Pub Nearby, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Gladwins Farm Colchester *featured*
Pub Nearby, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - The Granary Great Dunmow *featured*
Pub Nearby, Garden, Short Breaks, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards - Balmoral Apartments Southend on Sea *book online*
Pub Nearby, Open all year, Parking, Credit Cards
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