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Towns in Essex
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Abberton
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Abbess Roding
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Alresford
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Althorne
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Ardleigh
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Arkesden
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Ashdon
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Asheldham
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Ashen
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Aveley
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Barling
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Barnston
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Basildon
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Battlesbridge
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Belchamp Otten
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Belchamp St. Paul
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Belhus
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Berden
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Bicknacre
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Billericay
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Birch
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Birchanger
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Birdbrook
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Black Notley
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Blackmore
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Bobbingworth
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Bocking Churchstreet
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Boreham
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Borley
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Bowers Gifford
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Boxted
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Bradfield
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Bradwell
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Bradwell on Sea
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Braintree
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Brentwood
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Brightlingsea
We have just received a description of Brightlingsea from one of our readers. This description of Brightlingsea is currently being prepared for publication and will appear on this page within the next few days. |
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Broomfield
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Broxted
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Buckhurst Hill
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Bulmer
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Bulpham
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Burnham-on-Crouch
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Canewdon
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Canvey Island
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Castle Hedingham
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Chapel
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Chatley
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Chelmsford
Chelmsford is at the heart of social and economic life of Essex - and has been for 800 years. To this day Chelmsford is a thriving community and maintains its position as a premier commercial, retail and leisure location. |
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Chickney
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Chigwell
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Chipping Ongar
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Clacton-on-Sea
The seaside town of Clacton-on –Sea was once upon a time a buzzing holiday hotspot on the East Anglian Essex coast. |
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Clavering
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Coggeshall
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Colchester
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Cold Norton
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Copford
Copford is largely an agricultural village situated 5 miles to the west of Colchester. It is easily accessible thanks to its close proximity to the A12, being just 1/2 a mile form the A120/Stanstead turn-off. |
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Corringham
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Coryton
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Cressing
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Danbury
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Debden
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Dedham
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Dengie
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Dovercourt
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Earls Colne
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East Hanningfield
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East Horndon
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East Tilbury
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Eastwood
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Elsenham
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Epping
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Epping Green
Epping Green is a small village situated on the B181 between Epping and Harlow The village is in the parish of Epping Upland which stretches from the Wake Arms near Upshire to the outskirts of Harlow. |
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Farnham
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Faulkbourne
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Feering
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Felsted
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Finchingfield
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Fingringhoe
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Fobbing
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Fordham
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Foulness
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Freyerning
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Frinton-on-Sea
Frinton-on-Sea is a seaside town, fifteen miles from the historic town of Colchester on the Essex Coast. |
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Fyfield
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Galleywood
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Gestingthorpe
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Goldhanger
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Good Easter
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Gosfield
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Grays
Grays, situated on the North bank of the Thames, 4 miles East of the M25 and Dartford, is only about 25 miles from London. The 2,872 metre QEII Bridge, also some 4 miles away, is the longest cable stayed bridge in Europe. |
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Great Baddow
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Great Bardfield
Great Bardfield is a small village near finchingfield.It has its own museum in the centre and Bardfield cage, which was used for the punishment of unsavoury characters. It has a beautiful church and a fine collection of houses. |
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Great Bentley
Great Bently is a large village eight miles from Colchester and five miles from Clacton and the Essex Coast. |
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Great Braxted
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Great Bromley
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Great Burstead
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Great Canfield
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Great Chesterford
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Great Clacton
Great Clacton is a mile from Clacton-on-Sea town centre and seafront. It was originally a distinct village in its own right from the resort of Clacton-on-Sea; however it now merges into one large development. |
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Great Dunmow
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Great Easton
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Great Hallingbury
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Great Holland
Great Holland is a quiet, pleasant village situated between Frinton and Clacton with the sea visible in the distance. The offshore wind farm at Gunfleet Sands sandbank is now clearly visible and is due to begin operating in August 2009. |
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Great Horkesley
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Great Leighs
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Great Maplestead
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Great Oakley
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Great Parndon
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Great Saling
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Great Sampford
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Great Tey
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Great Totham
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Great Wakering
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Great Waltham
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Great Warley Street
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Great Wigborough
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Great Yeldham
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Greensted
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Hadleigh
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Hadstock
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Halstead
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Harlow
The Essex town of Harlow is one of number of "new" towns constructed largely in the 1950's/60's. It was designed to be one of a number of satellite towns which were built to facilitate the overspill population from London. |
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Harwich
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Hatfield Broad Oak
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Hatfield Heath
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Hatfield Peverel
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Hawkwell
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Helion Bumpstead
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Hempstead
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Henham
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Herongate
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Heybridge
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High Easter
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High Ongar
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High Roding
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Hockley
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Horndon on the Hill
Horndon-on-the-Hill is listed in the Doomsday Book as Horninduna. This name appears on a Saxon coin of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066AD) and suggests that Horninduna was once the site of a Royal Anglo-Saxon mint. |
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Hutton
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Hylands
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Ingatestone
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Ingrave
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Inworth
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Kelvedon
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Kelvedon Hatch
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Kirby Cross
Kirby Cross and Kirby-le-Soken are two villages close to the seaside resorts of Frinton and Walton, which are a mile away. |
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Laindon
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Lamarsh
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Langdon Hills
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Langford
Langford is a tiny hamlet situated between Hatfield Peverel and Heybridge on the B1019. It has been an agricultural village for centuries, but is perhaps more famous now for the Waterworks which was built in 1927 |
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Langley
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Latchingdon
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Lawford
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Layer de la Haye
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Layer Marney
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Leigh-on-Sea
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Lexden
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Lindsell
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Liston
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Little Baddow
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Little Bentley
Little Bentley is a small village situated between the A120 (Colchester - Harwich) and the A133 (Colchester - Clacton). Little Bentley has won the Essex Best Kept Village Award a number of times. |
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Little Bromley
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Little Burstead
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Little Canfield
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Little Chesterford
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Little Clacton
Little Clacton is a pleasant village on the outskirts of Great Clacton and Clacton town centre, it is situated approximately three miles from Weeley and Thorpe-Le-Soken. |
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Little Dunmow
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Little Oakley
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Little Wakering
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Little Walden
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Little Waltham
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Little Warley
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Little Wigborough
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Littlebury
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Loughton
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Low Street
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Maldon
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Manuden
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Margaret Roding
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Margaretting
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Marks Tey
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Markshall
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Matching
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Mayland
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Messing
A very tidy village steeped in history, this small Essex village is a very pretty place that doesn't resemble its name in the slightest! This was how a magazine started its feature on our village recently. |
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Middle Street
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Middleton
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Mile End
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Mistley
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Moreton
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Mount Bures
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Mountnessing
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Mundon
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Navestock
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Nazeing
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Nevendon
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Newport
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North Fambridge
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North Ockendon
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North Weald
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North Weald Bassett
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Norton Heath
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Ongar Station
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Orsett
Orsett was the original seat of local government for the area and the site of a palace of the Bishop of London in medieval times. The village lock-up last used as a prison in 1848, and the animal pound still exist. |
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Ovington
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Panfield
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Parkeston
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Pattiswick
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Pebmarsh
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Peldon
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Pitsea
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Pleshey
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Potter Street
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Purfleet
Purfleet features in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula in which the famous vampire buys a house called 'Carfax' and lives in Purfleet. |
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Purleigh
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Quendon
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Radwinter
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Ramsden Heath
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Ramsey
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Rawreth
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Rayleigh
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Rayne
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Rettendon
Rettendon is a quite widely spread village and includes the hamlet of Battlesbridge which is on the tidal River Crouch. The parish church is All Saints and sits on the hill just off the main road to Chelmsford. |
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Ridgewell
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Rivenhall
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Rochford
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Rowhedge
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Roxwell
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Roydon
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Saffron Walden
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Salcott
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Shalford
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Sheering
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Shell Haven
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Shenfield
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Shoeburyness
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Sible Hedingham
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South Benfleet
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South Hanningfield
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South Ockendon
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Southend
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Southminster
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St. Lawrence
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St. Osyth
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Stambourne
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Stanford le Hope
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Stanford Rivers
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Stansted Mountfitchet
When wondering how best to describe the Saxon village of Stansted Mountfitchet to a possible tourist, the phrase, " big things come in small packages" springs to mind. |
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Stapleford Abbots
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Stapleford Tawney
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Stebbing
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Steeple
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Steeple Bumpstead
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Stifford
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Stisted
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Stock
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Strethall
Anyone with any doubts about the beauty of the Essex countryside should visit Strethall in mid August on a day when the sun is shining down on the golden cornfields and the harvest is well and truly underway. |
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Sturmer
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Takeley
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Terling
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Thaxted
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Theydon Bois
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Thorpe le Soken
Thorpe Le-Soken dates from Saxon times and has a number of historic houses and buildings providing the village with a character distinct from Frinton, Clacton or Walton which developed as seaside resorts. Much of the village has changed re |
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Thorrington
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Thundersley
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Thurrock
Thurrock is situated in the south-west of Essex and borders the north bank of the River Thames. Thurrock is the gateway to London with easy access to both Kent and Essex via the M25 motorway. |
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Tilbury
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Tilbury
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Tillingham
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Tilty
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Tiptree
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Tollesbury
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Tolleshunt D'Arcy
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Tolleshunt Knights
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Tolleshunt Major
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Toppesfield
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Ugley
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Vange
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Virley
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Wakes Colne
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Waltham Abbey
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Waltham Holy Cross
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Walton on the Naze
Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex is a delightful Victorian styled seaside town and popular holiday resort, which has remained largely untouched since the 1950s. |
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Weeley
Weeley village is eleven miles from Colchester, seven miles west of Walton and five miles from Clacton. The main road to Frinton and Walton passes through, busy with traffic although off the main road the village itself is less busy |
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Wendens Ambo
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West Bergholt
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West Hanningfield
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West Mersea
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West Thurrock
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West Tilbury
West Tilbury was the site chosen for the Camp Royal in 1588 to prepare for the threatened Spanish invasion. |
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Wethersfield
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White Notley
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White Roding
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Wicken Bonhunt
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Wickford
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Wickham Bishops
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Widdington
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Widford
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Willingale
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Wimbish
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Wissington
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Witham
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Wivenhoe
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Wix
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Woodham Ferrers
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Woodham Mortimer
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Wormingford
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Wrabness
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Writtle
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