Places to explore near Colchester StationColchester

Largest Norman keep, built on a Roman temple.

1.3 km SE

Constable's own valley of slow river, water meadows and old mills on the Suffolk and Essex border, made for a gentle day

5.3 km N

The influential 'right plant, right place' gardens created from gravel and bog at Elmstead Market, with famous dry, woodland and water gardens.

8.2 km E

Near Colchester, this large Essex reservoir is of international importance for wintering ducks, geese and swans.

9.2 km S

Village pub in the Dedham Vale on The Good Food Guide's 100 Best Pubs.

9.3 km NE

The elegant Stour-side village at the heart of Constable country, its wide High Street of Georgian houses and inns still framing the scenes the painter knew.

9.5 km NE · Essex

A Stour-valley wool village of timbered houses whose tall church tower, painted repeatedly by Constable, rides the ridge above Dedham Vale.

9.7 km N · Suffolk

A Constable-country dining pub with rooms, named Suffolk's best pub in the 2020 guide.

9.9 km N

A country park in Essex.

0.7 km E

Round Norman arches of reused Roman brick, left from one of England's first Augustinian priories.

1.7 km SE

Late medieval gatehouse faced in flint flushwork, the last standing part of St John's Abbey in Colchester, and scarred in the 1648 siege.

1.8 km S

Across rural Essex from Epping to the port of Harwich, through Constable's Dedham Vale and a string of medieval villages.

2.4 km NW · Essex

A National Trust place in Essex.

3 km SE

An English wine estate on the Stour border near Dedham, with vineyard tours, tastings, events and countryside stays.

6 km N

Twenty acres of private gardens at Ardleigh near Colchester, mixing Japanese, gravel, water and woodland planting.

6.5 km E

Newmarket to the estuary at Cattawade down the Suffolk Stour, finishing among the scenes Constable painted in Dedham Vale.

6.7 km NW · Suffolk, Essex & Cambridgeshire