New Hall Vineyards                                    Purleigh, Chelmsford                              www.newhallwines.co.uk
English Vineyard is one of the oldest and largest English Wine Producer in the Country and was first established in Essex by the Greenwood family in the village of Purleigh in 1969. The vines grown at New Hall have been planted between 12m to 24m above sea level on well-sheltered southern facing slopes of a shallow valley.  Which over the years has proven itself to be an almost ideal climatic site for the growing of vines. Directions: From A12 take A414 towards Danbury and Maldon go straight onto B1010 3 miles on Left.
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Redwings Ada Cole Rescue Centre                  Broadley Common, Harlow                  www.redwings.co.uk
Visit rescued horses, ponies, donkeys and mules at the Redwings Ada Cole Rescue Centre in Essex. The centre has pleasant paddock walks and more than 50 horsey residents, many of whom are looking for homes through the Redwings Guardianship Scheme. The centre is open daily and entry is free! Directions:  Off the B181 in Broadley Common, near Nazeing in Essex.
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Audley End House and Gardens	Saffron Walden	Historic House
The doors of our restored historic stables recently opened, complete with resident horses and a Victorian groom. Our new stables experience includes an exhibition where you can find out about the workers who lived on the estate in the 1880s, the tack house and the Audley End fire engine. Try our dressing up clothes in the stables and meet our horses, Captain, Smoke, Bonny and Duke, too. Plus, children can let loose in our brand new themed play area next to our new Cart Yard Café which is already proving very popular with visitors. Audley End House itself is a magnificent house, built to entertain royalty, and includes a Victorian Service Wing complete with kitchen, laundries and a dairy. With beautiful grounds to explore, including an impressive formal garden and the working Organic Kitchen Garden, there’s so much to see and do at Audley End House.

Beth Chatto Gardens	Colchester	Garden
Internationally famous landscaped gardens with many unusual plants. Renowned Gravel Garden, water gardens and woodland. Large plant nursery and Tea Room.

Bourne Mill	Colchester	Mill
A delightful piece of late Elizabethan playfulness. Built for banquets and converted into a mill, still with working waterwheel.

Boydells Dairy Farm	Wethersfield	Farm Park
Small family farm specialising in sheep milking. Hands-on fun and educational guided tour including many other farm animals. Allow 2 hours. Wheelchair friendly. Picnic area.

Coggeshall Grange Barn	Coggeshall, Colchester	Other Building
One of Europe's oldest timber-framed buildings, it has a cathedral-like interior. Exhibition of local woodcarving and tools.

Cressing Temple Barns	Cressing	Historic Building
Two very large medieval barns a Visitor Centre and a delightful Tudor Walled Garden. Hosting a year-round programme of events and activities, including re-enactments.

Hadleigh Castle	Hadleigh	Castle
The romantic ruins of a royal castle overlooking the Essex marshes. Hadleigh was begun in about 1215 by Hubert de Burgh, but extensively refortified by Edward III during the Hundred Years War, becoming a favourite residence of the ageing king. The barbican and two striking drum towers – one later used by Georgian revenue men looking out for smugglers – are part of his substantial building works during the 1360s.

Hatfield Forest	Takeley, Nr Bishop's Stortford	Nature Reserve
No other forest on earth evokes the atmosphere of a medieval hunting forest so completely. The ancient trees of the forest are like magnificent living sculptures, peaceful giants worn and fragile from centuries of seasons and use. Some of our extraordinary ancient trees are 1,200 years old! Just imagine what these trees have lived through and the stories they could tell. Whether you want somewhere for the children to run off energy, somewhere you can run to keep fit, or somewhere to walk where you can quietly reflect, you will find your own special place somewhere in Hatfield Forest.

Hill Hall	Nr Epping	Historic House
This fine Elizabethan mansion features some of the earliest external Renaissance architectural detail in the country, and two rare and outstanding sets of 16th-century wall paintings of mythical and Biblical subjects. Hill Hall has now been divided into private houses, but parts remain open to the public by prior arrangement.

Lee Valley Park Farms	Waltham Abbey	Farm Park
Meet over 200 Farm and pet animals. Meet the lambs in spring, ride down on the tractor to see the milking and lots more.

Lexden Earthworks and Bluebottle Grove	Colchester	Ancient Monument
The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester. There are also many pre-Roman graves hereabouts, including Lexden Tumulus, allegedly the burial place of the British chieftain Cunobelinus.

Mistley Towers	Lawford	Church
Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776.

Oakwood Nurseries	Little Clacton	Garden Centre
Garden Centre, Coffee shop, Small children’s play area, Re-use Centre. 0pen Monday to Friday 9am-4pm.

Prior`s Hall Barn	Widdington	Other Buildings
One of the finest surviving medieval barns in eastern England, tree-ring dated to the mid-15th century, with a breathtaking aisled interior and crown post roof, the product of some 400 oaks.

Rayleigh Mount	Rayleigh
Early medieval motte and bailey castle site, now an urban wildlife haven affording sweeping views. Adjacent windmill houses historical exhibition.

RHS Garden Hyde Hall	Chelmsford	Garden
Hyde Hall is an inspirational garden of 24 acres. It has a great diversity of plants and planting styles providing wonderful seasonal interest.

St Botolph`s Priory	Colchester	Priory
The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded c.1100. An impressive example of early Norman architecture, built in flint and reused Roman brick, the church displays massive circular pillars and round arches and an elaborate west front. Later badly damaged by cannon fire during the Civil War siege of 1648.

St John`s Abbey Gate	Colchester	Abbey
This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John. It was built c.1400 to strengthen the abbey's defences following the Peasants' Revolt. Later part of the mansion of the Royalist Lucas family, the gatehouse was bombarded and stormed by Parliamentarian soldiers during the Civil War siege.

Tilbury Fort	Tilbury	Fort
Tilbury Fort on the Thames estuary has protected London’s seaward approach from the 16th century through to the Second World War. Henry VIII built the first fort here, and Queen Elizabeth I famously rallied her army nearby to face the threat of the Armada. The present fort is much the best example of its type in England, with its circuit of moats and bastioned outworks. Spend a great family day out here as you explore the magazine houses used to store vast quantities of gunpowder or enter the bastion magazine passages and feel what it was like for the soldiers who lived here. Our exhibition traces the role of the fort in the defence of London.

Waltham Abbey Gatehouse and Bridge	Waltham Abbey	Abbey
A fine 14th-century gatehouse, bridge and other remains of the abbey refounded by Harold, last Saxon King of England.

 

Abberton Reservoir Visitor Centre	Colchester
Adventure Island Theme Park	Southend-on-Sea
Audley End Miniature Railway	Saffron Walden
Bardfield Vineyard	Great Bardfield
Barleylands Craft Village and Farm Museum	Billericay
Barn Theatre	Dunmow
Battlesbridge Motorcycle Museum	Battlesbridge
Beecroft Art Gallery	Westcliff-On-Sea
Birchanger Tourist Information Centre	Bishops Storford
Blake Hall Gardens and Museum	Ongar
Blake House Craft Centre	Braintree
Bradwell Power Station and Visitor Centre	Bradwell-On-Sea
Braintree Tourist Information Centre	Braintree
Brandler Galleries	Brentwood
Brentwood Museum	Brentwood
Brentwood Tourist Information Centre	Brentwood
Bridge End Gardens	Saffron Walden
Brightlingsea Museum	Brightlingsea
Canvey Railway and Model Engineering Club	Canvey Island
Cater Museum	Billericay
Cathedral Church of St Mary and St Helen	Brentwood
Central Museum and Planetarium	Southend-on-Sea
Chappel Galleries	Colchester
Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation	Little Baddow
Chelmsford Cathedral	Chelmsford
Chelmsford Museum and Essex Regiment Museum	Chelmsford
Chelmsford Tourist Information Centre	Chelmsford
Childsplay Adventureland	Colchester
Clacton Pier	Clacton-On-Sea
Clacton Shopping Village	Clacton
Clacton-on-Sea Tourist Information Centre	Clacton-On-Sea
Coggeshall Heritage Centre	Coggeshall, Colchester
Colchester Castle	Colchester
Colchester Castle Museum	Colchester
Colchester Visitor Information Centre	Colchester
Colchester Zoo	Colchester
Colne Valley Railway and Farm Park	Castle Hedingham
Cudmore Grove Country Park	East Mersea
Danbury Country Park	Danbury
Dutch Cottage, The	Rayleigh
East Anglian Railway Museum	Colchester
Epping Forest District Museum	Waltham Abbey
Essex Police Museum	Chelmsford
Felsted Vineyard	Felsted
Finchingfield (Duck End) Postmill	Finchingfield
Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve	Fingringhoe
Firstsite	Colchester
Flitch Way Country Park	Rayne
Focal Point Gallery	Southend-on-Sea
Freya's Ponyland Rescue Centre and Farm Museum	Tumblers Green
Fry Art Gallery	Saffron Walden
Gardens of Easton Lodge, The	Great Dunmow
Go Bananas	Colchester
Gosfield Hall	Halstead
Gosfield Lake Resort	Halstead
Great Notley Country Park and Discovery Centre	Braintree
Ha'penny Pier Visitor Centre	Harwich
Hadleigh Castle Country Park	Hadleigh
Hainault Forest Country Park	Chigwell
Hanningfield Reservoir Centre	Billericay
Harwich Redoubt Fort	Harwich
Hazle Ceramics Workshop	Great Warley
Hedingham Castle	Halstead
High Woods Country Park	Colchester
Holland Haven Country Park	Clacton-On-Sea
Hollytrees Museum	Colchester
House on the Hill Toy Museums Adventure	Stansted
Hylands House	Chelmsford
Ingatestone Hall	Ingatestone
Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker	Brentwood
Kursaal	Southend-on-Sea
Langdon Hills Country Park	Corringham
Langdon Visitor's Centre	Basildon
Layer Marney Tower	Colchester
Leez Priory	Chelmsford
Little Easton Manor and Barn Theatre	Great Dunmow
Lower Barn Farm Craft and Cultural Centre	Rayleigh
Maeldune Heritage Centre	Maldon
Maldon and District Agricultural and Domestic Museum	Goldhanger
Maldon District Museum	Maldon
Maldon Tourist Information Centre	Maldon
Mangapps Railway Museum	Burnham-On-Crouch
Marks Hall Garden and Arboretum	Coggeshall, Colchester
Marsh Farm Country Park	Chelmsford
Megazone Laser Arena	Rayleigh
Mersea Vineyard	East Mersea
Mole Hall Wildlife Park	Saffron Walden
Motorboat Museum	Basildon
Moulsham Mill	Chelmsford
Mountfitchet Castle	Stansted Mountfitchet
Museum of Power	Maldon
Natural History Museum	Colchester
North Weald Airfield Museum	Epping
Old House, The	Rochford
Original Great Maze, The	Braintree
Paycocke's	Coggeshall, Colchester
PC Arena	Colchester
Prittlewell Priory	Southend-on-Sea
Quasar at Rollerworld	Colchester
Red House Visitor Centre	Colchester
Saffron Walden Museum	Saffron Walden
Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre	Saffron Walden
Sealife Adventure	Southend-on-Sea
Southchurch Hall Museum	Southend-on-Sea
Southend Airport	Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea Pier	Southend-on-Sea
Thaxted Garden for Butterflies	Thaxted
Thaxted Guildhall	Thaxted
Thurrock Museum	Grays
Thurrock Tourist Information Centre	Grays
Tiptree Tearoom, Museum and Shop	Tiptree
Townsford Mill Antiques Centre	Halstead
Tropical Wings Butterfly and Bird Gardens	Woodham Ferrers
Tumblewood	Halstead
Tymperleys Clock Museum	Colchester
Walton Hall Museum	Stanford-Le-Hope
Walton Pier	Walton-on-the-Naze
Wat Tyler Country Park	Pitsea
Weald Country Park	South Weald