Hotels in Essex
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Hotels in Essex

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Southend-on-Sea
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Dedham Vale, in the Stour valley on the Suffolk border, was made famous by his paintings and is an area of outstanding natural beauty. You can visit the site of Flatford Mill and see some of his work in Bridge Cottage. Dedham has a lovely old church.
The Good Hotel Guide has some hotels set right in Constable scenery plus others in coastal and village locations. Colchester, Britain’s oldest town (it was the Romans’ first capital in England) has associations with Boudicca, and a Norman castle. Twelve miles away is St Osyth Priory on the Tendring Peninsula: an attractive collection of old buildings, it houses paintings from Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.Coggeshall is a lovely village with many 16th- and 17th-century houses and a square dominated by a Victorian clocktower. Thaxted, where Gustav Holst once lived, has a fine half-timbered guildhall. Saffron Walden, too, has many fine old buildings including a restored windmill. Nearby Audley End, a grand Jacobean mansion once owned by Charles II, stands in magnificent grounds designed by Capability Brown. Harwich, an ancient port, is now best known now as a ferry port but its old town is worth exploring. Essex’s seaside resorts include Southend-on-Sea , Clacton-on-Sea, Frinton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze.
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