Hales Wood

A medieval market town of pargeted houses and a maze on the common, named for the saffron crocus once grown here and crowned by the largest church in Essex.

3.8 km SW · Essex

The largest Roman burial mounds in northern Europe, a cluster of grassy cones hidden in trees at tiny Bartlow near the Essex border.

4.7 km N

Grand Jacobean palace in Capability Brown parkland.

5.3 km W

Aisled oak barn of the mid-1400s at Widdington, among the finest medieval barns in the east of England, under a crown-post roof.

9.2 km SW

One of England's best-preserved small towns, its medieval and Georgian houses climbing to a hilltop church and a restored guildhall, with a windmill on the edge.

10.2 km S · Essex

Europe's largest air museum, on a surviving Battle of Britain airfield, with hangars of historic aircraft and regular flying displays.

12.7 km NW