Villages & towns in EssexEssex, England

A Blackwater wool town thick with timber-framed houses, from the Tudor merchant's Paycocke's to a medieval tithe barn beside the abbey ruins.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A Colne Valley village of painted timber houses and two old inns clustered below its Norman keep.

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Said to be the most photographed village in Essex, a sweep of pastel cottages and a duck pond below a green topped by a surviving post mill.

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A creekside sailing town on the Colne estuary with a row of pastel beach huts and blue-flag bathing along Cindery Island shore.

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A yachting town on the Crouch known as the 'Cowes of the East Coast', with a colourful Georgian quayside, sailing clubs and oyster smacks.

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Reputedly England's smallest town, a row of Georgian houses and pubs on the Stour where the estuary opens out into the Dedham Vale landscape.

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The main village of Mersea Island, an old-fashioned resort of beach huts and oyster sheds looking out over the Blackwater Estuary.

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