East of England
Essex
City of Colchester

Colchester

Colchester is a city in , East Anglia. Home to the University of Essex, the Colchester Institute and an Army Garrison, and with its attractive old buildings, Roman wall, castle and proximity to Constable country, Colchester is an interesting place to visit.
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  • Type: City with 173,000 residents
  • Description: city in Essex, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Colchester (parish)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Colchester Castle and Colchester railway station.

Museum
Photo: George Gastin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Norman castle in Colchester, , , dating from the second half of the eleventh century. The keep of the castle is mostly intact and is the largest example of its kind anywhere in Europe, due to it being built on the foundations of the Roman Temple of Claudius.

Railway station
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is a principal stop on the Great Eastern Main Line in the , and is the primary station serving the city of Colchester, .

Railway station
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is on the Sunshine Coast Line in the , and is the secondary station serving the city of Colchester, Essex.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lexden and Berechurch.

Suburb
Photo: Paul Shreeve, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburb of Colchester and former civil parish, in the county of , England. It was formerly a village, and has previously been called Lessendon, Lassendene and Læxadyne.

Village
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is a suburb of Colchester in , England. was formerly a separate civil parish. In 1891 the parish had a population of 167. On 26 March 1897 the parish was abolished and the area absorbed into Colchester.

Suburb
is an area in the southeastern part of Colchester in , England, on the River Colne. Historically it was a hamlet. is home to the Paxmans Factory which manufactures automobile parts.

Colchester

Latitude
51.8897° or 51° 53′ 23″ north
Longitude
0.8995° or 0° 53′ 58″ east
Population
173,000
Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)
IATA airport code
CLB
United Nations Location Code
GB COL
Open location code
9F32VVQX+VQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21503243
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2652618
Wiki­data ID
Q184163
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Colchester” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Colchester”
  • Arabic: “كولشيستر:”
  • Arabic: “كولشيستر”
  • Aragonese: “Colchester”
  • Armenian: “Կոլչեստր”
  • Armenian: “Քոլչեսթեր”
  • Asturian: “Colchester”
  • Basque: “Colchester”
  • Belarusian: “Колчэстэр”
  • Bengali: “কোলচেস্টার”
  • Breton: “Camulodunum”
  • Breton: “Colchester”
  • Bulgarian: “Колчестър”
  • Catalan: “Colchester”
  • Cebuano: “Colchester”
  • Chinese: “科尔切斯特”
  • Chinese: “科爾切斯特”
  • Chinese: “科赤斯特”
  • Chinese: “高車士打”
  • Czech: “Colchester”
  • Danish: “Colchester”
  • Dutch: “Camalodunum”
  • Dutch: “Colchester”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولتشيستر”
  • Esperanto: “Colchester”
  • Finnish: “Camulodunum”
  • Finnish: “Colchester”
  • French: “Colchester”
  • Georgian: “კოლჩესტერი”
  • German: “Colchester”
  • Greek: “Κόλτσεστερ”
  • Gujarati: “કોલચેસ્ટર”
  • Hausa: “Colchester”
  • Hebrew: “קולצ’סטר”
  • Hindi: “कोलचेस्टर”
  • Hungarian: “Colchester”
  • Icelandic: “Colchester”
  • Indonesian: “Colchester”
  • Interlingua: “Colchester”
  • Irish: “Colchester”
  • Italian: “Colchester”
  • Japanese: “コルチェスター (教区)”
  • Japanese: “コルチェスター”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಲ್ಚೆಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Korean: “콜체스터”
  • Ladin: “Colchester”
  • Latin: “Camalodunum”
  • Latin: “Camulodunum”
  • Latin: “Colonia Claudia Victricensis”
  • Latin: “Colonia Victricensis”
  • Latvian: “Kolčestera”
  • Lithuanian: “Colchester”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolčesteris”
  • Luxembourgish: “Colchester”
  • Macedonian: “Колчестер”
  • Malay: “Colchester”
  • Marathi: “कोल्चेस्टर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Colchester”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colchester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Colchester i England”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Colchester”
  • Norwegian: “Colchester”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Colneceaster”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Colchester, Essex”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Colchester”
  • Persian: “کولچستر”
  • Polish: “Colchester”
  • Portuguese: “Colchester”
  • Romanian: “Colchester”
  • Russian: “Колчестер”
  • Russian: “Кольчестер”
  • Scots: “Colchester”
  • Serbian: “Colchester”
  • Serbian: “Kolčester”
  • Serbian: “Колчестер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colchester”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kolčester”
  • Silesian: “Colchester”
  • Slovak: “Colchester”
  • Slovenian: “Colchester”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کولچستر”
  • Spanish: “Colchester”
  • Swahili: “Colchester”
  • Swedish: “Colchester”
  • Tajik: “Кулчестер”
  • Tamil: “கால்செஸ்டர்”
  • Tamil: “வில்லிங்டோன்”
  • Tatar: “Колчестер”
  • Telugu: “కాల్చేస్టార్”
  • Telugu: “కోల్చెస్టర్”
  • Thai: “โคลเชสเตอร์”
  • Turkish: “Colchester”
  • Ukrainian: “Колчестер”
  • Urdu: “کولچسٹر”
  • Venetian: “Colchester”
  • Volapük: “Colchester”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colchester”
  • Welsh: “Caer Colun”
  • Welsh: “Caerfuddai”
  • Welsh: “Colchester”
  • Wu Chinese: “科尔切斯特”
  • Yue Chinese: “高車士打”

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