Essex
Essex is a large county in East Anglia, England. It lies to the east and north-east of London, and is home to three cities, several bustling market towns, and hundreds of countryside villages.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cressing Temple and White Notley railway station.
Cressing Temple
Photo: JohnArmagh, Public domain.
Cressing Temple is a medieval site situated between Witham and Braintree in Essex, close to the villages of Cressing and White Notley. It was amongst the very earliest and largest of the possessions of the Knights Templar in England, and is currently open to the public as a visitor attraction.
White Notley railway station
Railway station
Photo: David Kemp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
White Notley railway station is on the Braintree Branch Line in the East of England, serving the village of White Notley, Essex. It is 41 miles 60 chains down the line from London Liverpool Street and it is situated between Witham to the south and Cressing to the north.
Cressing railway station
Railway station
Photo: Steven Duhig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cressing railway station is on the Braintree Branch Line in the East of England, serving the villages of Cressing and Black Notley, Essex. It is 42 miles 75 chains down the line from London Liverpool Street via Witham and it is situated between White Notley to the south and Braintree Freeport to the north.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Witham and Braintree.
Witham
Photo: Brenda Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Witham is a town and civil parish in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England. It stands on the Roman road between the cities of Chelmsford and Colchester.
Braintree
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Braintree is a town in Essex, England. For a town of its size it boasts very few amenities. However, a shopping village on the outskirts, 'Freeport', has roughly 80 shops.
Coggeshall
Photo: AGGoH, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coggeshall is a town of 4,700 people in Essex on the River Blackwater. It has almost 300 listed buildings and a market whose charter was granted in 1256 by King Henry III.
Essex
- Also known as: “County of Essex”
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.8333° or 51° 50′ northLongitude
0.5833° or 0° 35′ eastPopulation
1,880,000Elevation
167 feet (51 metres)Abbreviation
“ESS”Open location code
9F32RHMM+88GeoNames ID
2649889
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