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Colchester is less than 30 miles (50 km) from London Stansted Airport and 20 miles (30 km) from the port of Harwich. Attractions in and around the city include St Botolph's Priory, Colchester Zoo, and several art galleries.
- Colchester Castle Museum
- Castle Park
- Roman Wall
- Colchester Zoo
- Hollytrees Museum
- Beth Chatto Gardens
- Mercury Theatre
- Roman Circus Centre
- High Woods Country Park
- St Botolph’s Priory
Begun during the Norman Conquest, Colchester Castle has the largest Norman castle keep in Europe, roughly 1.5 times the size of the Tower of London’s White Tower. It was built over the foundations of the Roman Temple of Claudius, and the sizeable vaults from this building can be explored on a guided tour. The first-class Castle Museum combines stun...
A million people come to the surrounding Castle Park every year. This is divided by the northern chunk of the Roman Wall, between the Upper and Lower Park, and took on its current design in Victorian times. In these 27 acres there’s a play park, cafe, boating lake, crazy golf course and a bandstand wrapped in formal terraces and flowerbeds. In the ...
In the second half of the 1st century Camulodunum was refortified with towering walls on a rough rectangular plan. These were composed of septaria mudstone boulders, coated with alternating layers of tiles and yet more septaria. Such was their permanence that today two long sections remain, up to a height of six metres along the north side through ...
In a world of smartly designed themed habitats, Colchester Zoo has more than 260 species from all corners of the globe. These might be crowd pleasers like African elephants, giraffes, African lions and Humboldt penguins, or species not often seen on these shores, like fennec foxes, sun bears and Colombian black spider monkeys. Just to give you hint...
This free local history museum is in a handsome early-Georgian townhouse in Castle Park. The museum shares the building with Colchester’s visitor information centre, and has collections of decorative arts, costume and toys spanning three centuries. Most intriguing of all is the array of Colchester-made clocks, many in working condition, in an exhib...
The acclaimed gardener Beth Chatto created this informal garden next to her home in 1960. These five acres had been left empty for decades because of the poor gravelly soil and boggy hollows. The gardens are a textbook example of how to choose the right plant for the right conditions, making the best of both the soil and the low annual rainfall wit...
Colchester’s well-respected performing arts venue is noted for its series of original home-grown productions each season, going by the title “Made in Colchester”. These can be plays from new scripts or family-friendly adaptations of fairytales like Peter Pan and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The high quality of these shows have earned the Mercur...
Britain’s only known Roman circus was discovered in 2005 and dates from around the start of the 2nd century AD. During the spring, summer and autumn the centre on the site is open Tuesday to Saturday and invites people to learn more about this once enormous landmark. Some 8,000 spectators would come to watch chariot races, and you can see the excav...
A mere half a mile from Colchester’s train station, High Woods Country Park is a Green Flag-winning patchwork of meadows, woodland, scrub, meadows and lakes. The park is within the town’s limits but on the signposted walking trails it will be hard to believe you’re not out in the countryside. Much of this land once belonged to the Medieval Forest o...
An English Heritage site moments from the train station, St Botolph’s Priory was England’s first and most prominent Augustinian convent. The priory was founded at the start of the 12th century and that early Norman architecture is evident in the semi-circular arch and the zigzag patterns of the archivolts on the main west door, or Pardon Door. The ...
Aug 27, 2019 · Colchester is both a gateway to the bucolic charms of East Anglia and a regional cultural hub. The town centre is compact, easily walkable and is easy to get to; it's just an hour from London with up to 6 trains an hour.
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Mar 8, 2023 · The oldest recorded city in Britain (circa 5 th century), this Essex town is filled with remarkable remnants of its storied past and rewarding things to do. A towering Norman castle, extensive Roman walls, and preserved timber homes are only a few sightseeing highlights.
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