Essex
Historic sites and bustling towns
Essex
Essex offers everything from beautiful landscape to historic towns and buildings, and from cultural attractions to quiet medieval villages to well, yes, the 'kiss 'n' cuddle' of Southend-on-Sea. Get past the stereotype and there is a region waiting to be discovered and which should be as lauded as some of the more famous tourism destinations across the UK.
One of the home-counties, Essex sits on the Thames and looks out on the North Sea. It is to the north-east of Greater London and borders Hertfordshire to the west, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north. The Essex landscape varies greatly making for some wonderful scenery, from jagged coastline and low salt marshes and streams to gently undulating pastoral countryside and farmland populated by sheep and cows.
The rural land that borders Suffolk is quite beautiful and the landscape offers up views recognizable from a number of famous Constable paintings.
Essex is one of the oldest counties and was at one time part of the East Saxon Kingdom. Originally held by the Trinovantes tribe, Essex was the first region to be taken over by the Romans in 43 AD and Colchester is the oldest recorded town in Britain.
Consequently the region offers a wealth of archaeological riches - in particular the Roman remains of Colchester, capital of the province of Britannia. Colchester Castle has an extensive exhibition on Roman Colchester and there are remains of a unique Roman Circus in the city. There are also an astonishing 14,000 buildings with listed building status in Essex and those worth visiting include Colchester Castle, Hylands House, Audley House, Thaxted Guildhall, Hedingham Castle and the 7th century Saxon Church of St. Peter-on-the-Wall.
From its gentle seaside resorts to gaudy Southend, and from Epping Forest to Waltham Abbey to the elegant county town of Chelmsford, Essex is a charming corner of England offering history, beauty, culture and, yes, a little bit of slap and tickle.
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Postcodes in Essex
Ashdon
Church End
Cole End
Elder Street
Frogs' Green
Great Chesterford
Great Sampford
Hempstead
Howlett End
Little Chesterford
Little Sampford
Little Walden
Maple End
Plant
Radwinter
Radwinter End
Sewards End
Springwell
Steventon End
Stockng Green
Tindon End
Water End
Wimbish
Wimbish Green
Arkesden
Audley End
Bird Green
Bridge Green
Catmere End
Clavering
Debden
Deer's Green
Duddenhoe End
Elmdon
Further Ford End
Hill Green
Langley
Little Henham
Littlebury
Littlebury Green
Newport
Newport
Northend
Quendon
Rickling
Rickling Green
Roast Green
Rook End
Saffron Walden
Stickling Green
Strethall
Upper Green
Wendens Ambo
Wicken Bonhunt
Widdington
Wood Hall
Bartlow
Hadstock
Linton
Helions Bumpstead
New England
Pale Green
Roost End
Steeple Bumpstead
Sturmer
Wiggens Green
Asheldham
Bradwell on Sea
Bradwell Waterside
Burnham On Crouch
Creeksea
Dengie
East End
Montsale
Northend
Ostend
Pewet Island
Ramsey Island
Southminster
St Lawrence
Steeple
Stoneyhills
Tillingham
Wallasea Island
Bishops Green
Blasford Hill
Boyton Cross
Broomfield
Can
Chalk End
Chignall Smealy
Chignall St James
Edney Common
Fanner's Green
Farmbridge End
Four Wantz
Garnetts
Good Easter
Great Oxney Green
High Easter
Highwood
Little Oxney Green
Little Waltham
Loves Green
Mashbury
Minnow End
Newney Green
Parsonage Green
Pepper's Green
Roxwell
Springfield
Stagden Cross
Tye Green
Writtle
Brock Hill
Crays Hill
Crouch
Downham
Great Burstead
Ramsden Bellhouse
Ramsden Heath
South Green
Billericay
Gooseberry Green
Little Burstead
Noak Hill
Queen's Park
Sunnymede
Tye Common
Childerditch
East Horndon
Great Warley
Herongate
Hutton
Ingrave
Little Warley
Padham's Green
Warley
West Horndon
Bentley
Brentwood
Brook Street
Coxtie Green
Horseman Side
Kelvedon Hatch
Navestock Side
Pilgrims Hatch
Sabine's Green
South Weald
Waterhales
Crow Green
Doddinghurst
Fox Hatch
Green Street
Hay Green
Hook End
Hutton Mount
Mountnessing
Peartree Green
Shenfield
Stondon Massey
Swallows Cross
Tip's Cross
Wyatt's Green
Bell Common
Colliers Hatch
Coopersale Common
Coopersale Street
Epping
Epping Green
Epping Upland
Fiddlers Hamlet
Gernon Bushes
Ivy Chimneys
Jack's Hatch
Mount End
North Weald Bassett
Piercing Hill
Steward's Green
Theydon Bois
Theydon Garnon
Theydon Mount
Thornwood Common
Tyler's Green
Woodside
Campions
Carter's Green
Churchgate Street
Foster Street
Hastingwood
Hobbs Cross
Housham Tye
Loyter's Green
Manwood Green
Matching
Matching Green
Matching Tye
Old Harlow
Potter Street
Sheering
Threshers Bush
Brays Grove
Harlow
Latton Bush
Stewards
Eastend
Great Parndon
Halls Green
Hare Street
Kingsmoor
Little Parndon
Passmores
Pinnacles
Roydon
The High
Baddow Park
Butt's Green
Chelmer Village
Chelmsford
Galleyend
Galleywood
Great Baddow
Hanningfield Reservoir
Howe Green
Little Mascalls
Lower Green
Moulsham
Reader's Corner
Sandon
West Hanningfield
Widford
Woodhill
Eastwick
Mark Hall North
Mark Hall South
Netteswell
Temple Fields
Lower Sheering
Stort
Ardley End
Bamber's Green
Bedlar's Green
Brewer's End
Bush End
Cam
Elsenham
Elsenham Sta
Fuller's End
Gaunt's End
Great Hallingbury
Hallingbury Street
Hatfield Broad Oak
Hatfield Heath
Henham
Hope End Green
Jack's Green
Little Hallingbury
Mott's Green
Needham Green
Newman's End
Old Mead
Pledgdon Green
Smith's Green
Start Hill
Takeley
Takeley Street
Taverners Green
Tilekiln Green
Ugley
Ugley Green
Woodend Green
Woodside Green
Wright's Green
Bentfield Bury
Birchanger
Chatter End
Duck End
Farnham
Hazel End
Level's Green
Little London
Maggots End
Mallows Green
Manuden
Bentfield Green
Burton End
Chapel End
Molehill Green
Stansted Mountfitchet
Althorne
Bartholomew Green
Bicknacre
Boreham
Breeds
Bridgemarsh Island
Broad's Green
Chapel Row
Chatham Green
Chelmer
Church End
Coalhill
Cock Clarks
Cold Norton
Danbury
Danbury Common
East Hanningfield
Fairstead
Farther Howegreen
Flack's Green
Ford End
Fuller Street
Gamble's Green
Gay Bowers
Great Claydons
Great Leighs
Great Waltham
Gubbion's Green
Hartford End
Hatfield Peverel
Hazeleigh
High Houses
Horne Row
Howegreen
Hyde Chase
Latchingdon
Little Baddow
Little Leighs
Littley Green
Lyons Hall
Mayland
Maylandsea
Milch Hill
Mowden
North Fambridge
Nounsley
Pleshey
Purleigh
Rank's Green
Rettendon
Ringtail Green
Roundbush
Rudley Green
Runsell Green
South Hanningfield
South Woodham Ferrers
Stow Maries
Terling
Thistley Green
Willows Green
Woodham Ferrers
Young's End
Beggar Hill
Blackmore
Buttsbury
Cooksmill Green
Elkins Green
Fryerning
Greenwoods
Handley Green
Ingatestone
Margaretting
Margaretting Tye
Mill Green
Nine Ashes
Norton Heath
Radley Green
Stock
Abbess End
Abbess Roding
Beauchamp Roding
Berners Roding
Birds Green
Bobbingworth
Bovinger
Cannon's Green
Chipping Ongar
Clatterford End
Fyfield
Greensted
Greensted Green
Hallsford Bridge
High Laver
High Ongar
King Street
Little End
Little Laver
Lower Bobbingworth Green
Magdalen Laver
Marden Ash
Margaret Roding
Miller's Green
Moreton
Nether Street
Norton Mandeville
Norwood End
Pedlars End
Pigstye Green
Shelley
Shellow Bowells
Stanford Rivers
Tilegate Green
Toot Hill
Willingale
Woodend
Armigers
Aythorpe Roding
Bacon End
Baconend Green
Bannister Green
Bardfield End Green
Bardfield Saling
Barnston
Bigods
Blake End
Boyton End
Bran End
Brick End
Broxted
Bustard Green
Canfield End
Causeway End
Cherry Green
Chickney
Church End
Churchend
Cobler's Green
Cock Green
Crow's Green
Cutlers Green
Duton Hill
Felsted
Frenches Green
Gransmore Green
Great Canfield
Great Dunmow
Great Easton
Hamperden End
Hellman's Cross
High Roding
Holder's Green
Hounslow Green
Keeres Green
Leaden Roding
Lindsell
Little Cambridge
Little Dunmow
Little Easton
Mill End Green
Monk Street
North End
Parkgate
Pharisee Green
Philpot End
Puttock's End
Richmond's Green
Roding
Roundbush Green
Sibley's Green
Stanbrook
Stebbing
Stebbing Green
Sucksted Green
Thaxted
Tilty
Watch House Green
Wellstye Green
White Roding (White Roothing)
White Roothing (White Roding)
Woodgates End
Beazley End
Blackmore End
Bocking
Bocking Churchstreet
Brain
Braintree
Brickkiln Green
Bridge End
Church End
Cornish Hall End
Duck End
Finchingfield
Gainsford End
Great Bardfield
Great Saling
Hawkin's Hill
Hawkspur Green
High Garrett
Howe Street
Jasper's Green
Little Bardfield
Little London
Lower Green
Oxen End
Panfield
Robinhood End
Rotten End
School Green
Shalford
Shalford Green
Ter
Waltham's Cross
Wethersfield
Black Notley
Bradwell
Burton Green
Cressing
Duckend Green
Folly Green
Great Notley
Hawbush Green
Lanham Green
Pattiswick
Perry Green
Rayne
Row Green
Silver End
Stisted
Stockstreet
Tumbler's Green
Beacon Hill
Blackwater
Chipping Hill
Faulkbourne
Great Braxted
Little Braxted
Powers Hall End
Rivenhall
Rivenhall End
The Green
White Notley
Wickham Bishops
Witham
Broad Street Green
Curling Tye Green
Goldhanger
Great Cobb Island
Great Totham
Heybridge
Heybridge Basin
Langford
Little Totham
Maldon
Mundon
Northey Island
Osea Island
Oxley Green
Salcott
Tollesbury
Tolleshunt D'Arcy
Tolleshunt Knights
Tolleshunt Major
Totham Hill
Totham Plains
Virley
Woodham Mortimer
Woodham Walter
The Hythe
Ashen
Ballingdon
Belchamp Otten
Belchamp St Paul
Belchamp Walter
Borley
Borley Green
Bulmer
Bulmer Tye
Church Street
Foxearth
Great Cornard
Great Henny
Henny Street
Hickford Hill
Knowl Green
Liston
Liston Garden
Long Gardens
Middleton
Ovington
Pannel's Ash
Pentlow
Pentlow Street
Puttock End
Rodbridge Corner
Stoke by Clare
Temple End
Twinstead
Twinstead Green
Bradfield
Bradfield Heath
Goose Green
Horsley Cross
Horsleycross Street
Lawford
Little Bromley
Manningtree
Mistley
Mistley Heath
New Mistley
Wix
Wrabness
Bath Side
Dovercourt
Great Oakley
Harwich
Little Oakley
Parkeston
Pewit Island
Ramsey
Skipper Island
Stones Green
Tower Hill
Upper Dovercourt
Frinton On Sea
Great Holland
Horsey Island
Kirby Cross
Kirby le Soken
Hedge end Island
The Naze
Walton On The Naze
Burrsville Park
Clacton on Sea
Cook's Green
Great Clacton
Holland on Sea
Jaywick
Rush Green
Beaumont
Bocking's Elm
Colne Point
Lee over Sands
Little Clacton
Point Clear
Row Heath
Seawick
St Osyth
St Osyth Heath
Tendring
Tendring Green
Thorpe Green
Thorpe le Soken
Weeley
Weeley Heath
Abberton Reservoir
Abbey Field
Berechurch
Birch
Birch Green
Blackheath
Hardy's Green
Heckfordbridge
Layer Breton
Layer de la Haye
Maypole Green
Old Heath
Shrub End
Beacon End
Braiswick
Chitts Hills
Colchester
Colne
Lexden
Seven Star Green
Stanway
Stanway Green
Boxted
Boxted Cross
Crockleford Hill
Fox Street
Greenstead
Hornestreet
Langham
Mile End
Parson's Heath
Welshwood Park
Workhouse Hill
Abberton
East Mersea
Easthorpe
Feering
Fingringhoe
Gore Pit
Great Wigborough
Highfields
Inworth
Kelvedon
Langenhoe
Langley Green
Layer Brook
Layer Marney
Little Wigborough
Mersea Island
Messing
Paternoster Heath
Peldon
Roman
Rowhedge
Skye Green
Smythe's Green
South Green
Stafford's Corner
Surrex
Tiptree
Tiptree Heath
West Mersea
Aldham
Boose's Green
Broad Green
Chappel
Coggeshall
Coggeshall Hamlet
Colne Engaine
Copford
Copford Green
Countess Cross
Daw's Cross
Earls Colne
East Gores
Eight Ash Green
Fordham
Fordham Heath
Fordstreet
Gallows Green
Great Horkesley
Great Tey
Hemp's Green
Janke's Green
Little Horkesley
Little Tey
Marks Tey
Rose Green
Rotchfords
Swan Street
Tilkey
Wakes Colne
Wakes Colne Green
West Bergholt
Westwood Park
White Colne
Wormingford
Aingers Green
Alresford
Ardleigh
Ardleigh Heath
Ardleigh Reservoir
Balls Green
Birchhall Corner
Brightlingsea
Bromley Cross
Burnt Heath
Cindery Island
Crockleford Heath
Dedham
Dedham Heath
Elmstead
Elmstead Heath
Elmstead Market
Foxash Estate
Frating
Frating Green
Great Bentley
Great Bromley
Hare Green
Hollybush Hill
Hurst Green
Keelars Tye
Lamb Corner
Little Bentley
Parney Heath
Raven's Green
South Heath
Stratford St Mary
Tendring Heath
Thorrington
Wivenhoe
Alphamstone
Bures
Lamarsh
Mount Bures
Almshouse Green
Audley End
Baythorne End
Birdbrook
Bunting's Green
Castle Hedingham
Cobbs Fenn
Craig's End
Cripple Corner
Cross End
Delvin End
Don Johns
Forry's Green
Frinkle Green
Gestingthorpe
Gosfield
Grass Green
Great Maplestead
Great Yeldham
Greenstead Green
Hall Green
Halstead
Highstreet Green
Little Maplestead
Little Yeldham
Lucking Street
Man's Cross
Meadowend
North End
Pebmarsh
Plaistow Green
Ridgewell
Rushley Green
Sible Hedingham
Southey Green
Stambourne
Stambourne Green
Tilbury Green
Tilbury Juxta Claire
Toppesfield
Whiteash Green
Wickham St Paul
Wixoe
Gilwell Park
Lippitts Hill
Sewardstone
Nazeing Mead
Aimes Green
Broadley Common
Bumble's Green
Claverhambury
Copthall Green
Harknett's Gate
Holyfield
Lea (Lee)
Lea Navigation
Lee (Lea)
Lower Nazeing
Nazeing
Nazeing Gate
Nazeing Long Green
Roydon Hamlet
Upshire
Waltham Abbey
Wood Green
Cressex
Debden Green
High Beach
Loughton
Abridge
Chigwell
Chigwell Row
Grange Hill
Lambourne End
Bulphan
Aveley
Mal Dyke
South Ockendon
Baker Street
Chadwell St Mary
Chafford Hundred
North Stifford
Orsett
Southfields
Little Thurrock
Orsett Heath
Biggin
East Tilbury
Low Street
Tilbury
West Tilbury
Lakeside
South Stifford
West Thurrock
Curtismill Green
Lambourne
Navestock Heath
Nuper's Hatch
Passingford Bridge
Stapleford Abbotts
Stapleford Tawney
Watton's Green
Broad Green
Chrishall
Pond Street
Berden
Brick House End
Park Green
Clifftown
Prittlewell
Southend on Sea
Westcliff on Sea
Bournes Green
North Shoebury
Southchurch
Thorpe Bay
Battlesbridge
Rawreth
Rawreth Shot
Runwell
Nevendon
Shotgate
Wickford
Basildon
Bowers Gifford
Eversley
Felmore
North Benfleet
Tarpots
Burnt Mills
Chalvedon
Fryerns
Pitsea
Laindon
Noak Bridge
Pipps Hill
Barstable
Dry Street
Great Berry
Kingswood
Langdon Hills
Lee Chapel
Vange
Westley Heights
Balstonia
Corringham
Fobbing
Great Malgraves
Horndon on the Hill
Linford
Mucking
Stanford le Hope
Barling
Cambridge Town
Churchend
Courtsend
Foulness Island
Foulness Point
Great Wakering
Little Wakering
Potton Island
Rushley Island
Samuel's Corner
Shoebury Ness
Shoeburyness
Stonebridge
Ashingdon
Ballards Gore
Canewdon
Great Stambridge
Paglesham Churchend
Paglesham Eastend
Rochford
Brandy Hole
Hawkwell
Hockley
Hullbridge
Mill Hill
Mount Bovers
South Fambridge
Rayleigh
Daws Heath
Hadleigh
Hope's Green
New Thundersley
South Benfleet
Thundersley
Weir
Canvey Island
Canvey Point
Dutch Village
Leigh Beck
Sunken Marsh
Winter Gardens
Chalkwell
Eastwood
Leigh on Sea
Stroud Green
Two Tree Island
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