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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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| 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. |
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