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Colchester
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Clacton-on-Sea
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Clacton-on-Sea is a quintessential seaside resort, and is located on the Tendring Peninsula in Essex. Although there is evidence that a settlement was founded here by the Celts in the 1 st Century BC, most of Clacton as we know it today dates from the late Victorian era onwards.
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Harwich
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Harwich is situated in the far northeastern corner of Essex, separated from Suffolk by the River Stour. It is best known for its International Ferry Terminal, from which ferries travel between Harwich and the continent.
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Saffron Walden
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Saffron Walden is an attractive market town towards the north of the county. Its unusual name – and for many years its prosperity – came from the trade of the saffron crocus, which was grown nearby.
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Braintree
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Braintree is a small market town in Essex, and is situated at the junction of two Roman Roads, there having been considerable habitation of the area during this period. The origins of the somewhat unusual name are unclear – the town appeared in the Domesday Book as ‘Branchetreu’.
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Harlow
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Harlow is one of the largest towns in Essex; originally a small market town, it became a New Town in 1947 and consequently expanded to house people from London after the Second World War. Harlow is today a commuter town.
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Chelmsford
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Chelmsford lies approximately midway between London and Colchester, and has been the county town of Essex since the 13 th Century. Chelmsford’s railway station is one of the busiest in the UK, and the town is a popular place for London’s commuters to live.
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Brentwood
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Brentwood is a town in the south west of Essex, bordering on the extremities of Greater London and within easy reach of the M25 motorway; for this reason it has become a popular place for the capital’s commuters to live.
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Basildon
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Although there is a settlement known as ‘Behoter’ listed in the Domesday Book, most of Basildon’s development occurred in the latter years of the 20 th Century, when the Essex towns of Pitsea, Laindon and Vange were combined and designated a New Town called Basildon.
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Southend-on-Sea
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Southend is one of the UK’s most famous seaside resorts and first became popular during the Victorian era, when residents of London began to take the train to the coast. Some of the grand Victorian architecture still remains, and Southend has the world’s longest pleasure pier.
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Canvey Island
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Canvey Island is the name of both the island just off the Essex coast in the Thames Estuary and the town upon the island. It was at one time part of the mainland, but is now linked only by a road bridge.
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