Places

Castle House was the home of Sir Alfred Munnings from 1919 till his death in 1959 and is architecturally a mixture of Tudor and Georgian elements. Read more…

Hollytrees Museum is situated in an eighteenth-century house close to Colchester Castle, which was used as a private residence until Read more…

The Colchester Natural History Museum is within a former church featuring natural history exhibits on regional animals and geology. Read more…

Coggeshall Grange Barn is a 13th-century monastic barn managed by the National Trust, and is one of Europe’s oldest timber-framed Read more…

The East Anglian Railway Museum is a real steam railway museum where you can get up close to a wide Read more…

Hedingham Castle is a Norman motte and bailey castle with a stone keep 110 feet high. For four centuries it Read more…

St Botolph’s Priory was the first English Augustinian priory church, founded at the end of the eleventh century from the Read more…

Colchester Zoo has over 260 rare species many part of breeding programmes. Interactive daily displays get you closer to the Read more…