Abberton Reservoir Visitor CentreBeth Chatto GardensBourne MillBrightlingsea MuseumCarter's VineyardsChappel GalleriesChildsplay AdventurelandCoggeshall Grange BarnColchester Castle MuseumColchester Castle ParkColchester City Sightseeing - See the best of Colchester by busColchester ZooCopt Hall MarshesCudmore Grove Country ParkDedham Art and Craft CentreEast Anglian Railway MuseumFingringhoe Wick Visitor CentrefirstsiteGnome MagicGo BananasGreen Island Gardens High Woods Country ParkHollytrees MuseumLayer Marney TowerLexden Earthworks and Bluebottle GroveMarks Hall Gardens and ArboretumMercury TheatreMersea Island MuseumNational History MuseumPaycocke'sRollerworld Sir Alfred Munnings Art Museum St Botolph's PriorySt John's Abbey GateThorrington Tide MillTiptree Tearooms, Museum and Jam Shop
Learn all about England’s oldest recorded town with City Sightseeing Colchester. Journey through Colchester’s streets and become absorbed in the town’s unique heritage and history. Colchester today is a thriving, modern town with many great...
Here at the Abberton Reservoir Visitor Centre, visitors can enjoy walks on the new Essex Wildlife Trust nature reserve. Regular sightings include brown hare and skylark, and recently also short eared owl. There are also stunning panoramic views acr...
The garden of a well-known nursery is in a shallow valley in front of the house. The valley contains a series of pools which are planted with good varieties of good plants, all well-grown. The former car park has been made into a beautiful gravel gar...
Brightlingsea Museum has collections that represent collections of objects, photographs and pictures illustrative of the social and economic history of the town and its immediate surroundings over the past 700 years, in particular its Cinque Port con...
Carter’s Vineyards are set in the picturesque Essex Countryside. Carter’s is an enchanting place comprising of 40 acres of vines, wildflower meadows, lakes and woodlands in Boxted a short distance off the A134. We produce an extensive range of fi...
Childsplay adventureland is the premier indoor play facility for under 11's designed by the leading soft play manufacturer in Europe. We have special areas for babies, toddlers, youngsters as well as a pleasant atomsphere for parents....
Colchester's distinctive heritage is nowhere more apparent than in Castle Park. A site of national importance, this Victorian Park contains evidence of 2000 years of history and is a landscape moulded by the people of Colchester over many eras. Ca...
Follow in the footsteps of Roman soldiers, Norman invaders, the Witchfinder General and the devastation of Queen Boudica. Explore over 2000 years of some of the most important events in British history in this magnificent Castle! There is so much to ...
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....
Cudmore Grove offers visitors a trip to the seaside with a difference. Located at the eastern end of Mersea Island, the park includes a sandy beach backed by a large expanse of open grassland, perfect for summer games, picnics and taking in the views...
The East Anglian Railway Museum, based just outside Colchester, Essex, is a Working Museum dedicated to preserving the history of railways in the Eastern Counties. Open every day between 10am and 4:30pm (or Dusk if earlier), on certain days specia...
Fingringhoe Wick was Essex Wildlife Trust's first nature reserve (1961) and some years later it was where the Trust opened their first visitor centre, and fifty years on visitors are still coming to see this magical place. Set in a spectacular positi...
firstsite is a visual arts organisation based in Colchester, Essex. Our mission is to make contemporary art relevant to everyone. What firstsite do Our integrated programme of work includes projects, exhibitions and publications by establis...
Gnome Magic is set in some 5 acres of Constable Country Gnome Magic was founded in 2000 with some 500 gnomes and friends but now it has grown to over 800 and growing and diversifying so it now includes a successful tea-room, museum, conservatory, gn...
Go Bananas is one of the largest indoor adventure play centres in the South East of England with 15 years of experience in entertaining children and Adults. Based in Colchester, Essex, Go Bananas have everything you need to entertain the young and ol...
Green Island Gardens are private gardens, open for the public to visit in Ardleigh near Colchester, Essex. Professionally designed by its owner Fiona Edmond, Green Island Gardens are laid out as a series of structured gardens displaying a huge ran...
High Woods Country Park One of Colchester's beauty spots, the Country Park includes woodland, open spaces (ideal for picnics) a lake and wildflower meadows.Along with marshy areas, hayfields and scrubland, High Woods provides the right habitat for th...
Hollytrees Museum displays three centuries of fascinating toys, costume and decorative arts displayed in an attractive Georgian town house from 1718. Parkland children's play area, shop, sensory garden. An important part of Colchester's rich hist...
One of this country's most dramatic buildings, Layer Marney Tower stands within the Essex landscape, commanding views to the River Blackwater and beyond. Built in the reign of Henry VIII it was visited by that most powerful of monarchs - and by his e...
Enjoy a great day at Marks Hall Gardens and Arboretum, Essex The Gardens and Arboretum located in Essex, feature landscaped woodland walks and footpaths, with vistas across the lakes to the Millennium Walk and the 18th Century Walled Garden, recen...
The Mersea Island Museum is an independent museum established in 1976 and occupying purpose-built premises in the centre of West Mersea, just to the east of the Parish Church. The traditional local activities of fishing, oystering, wild fowling a...
The National History Museum lets you get a fascinating chance to get closer to nature. Find out about wildlife habitats, biodiversity and climate change. Did you know that there was an earthquake in Colchester in 1884? Or that mammoths and hippo...
Rollerworld is internationally recognised as the finest roller-skating rink in Europe including spectacular sound and light show. Also available is Quasar is the world's favourite laser game....
Thorrington Tide Mill is a picturesque, medium-sized, timber-framed, tide-driven watermill, dated 1831, in the ownwership of Essex County Council. This has a breast-shot waterwheel and 3 pairs of millstones. It is one of only a handful of tide mil...
Tiptree Tearooms, Museum and Jam Shop was started over 50 years ago, John Wilkin began collecting the paraphernalia of preserve making and Essex village life. The museum is jam packed giving an insight into developing technologies and a glimpse of...
Dedham Art and Craft Centre is situated in the heart of Constable Country on the Essex/Suffolk border. Housed in a converted church in this popular village, the Centre exudes historic charm and is the perfect place to visit, shop and eat. Three f...
Visit Castle House and you will find the largest single collection of Munnings' works, fittingly displayed in the home he was so proud to own. In the gentle tranquil beauty of the English country garden stands Munning's studio, left much as it was...
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...
