What to do in Essex

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Essex travel guide

Bridge End Gardens featuring a park

Layer Marney Tower featuring heritage architecture

Bridge End Gardens which includes a garden and fall colors

Colchester featuring heritage architecture, a castle and a cemetery

Colchester which includes heritage elements, an administrative building and interior views

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What to do in Essex

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Cambridge featuring heritage elements, a river or creek and heritage architecture

Cambridge

Piccadilly Circus featuring a city, city views and street scenes

London

Central Line railway in Buckhurst Hill The railway lines sweep up towards Buckhurst Hill station before dropping and swinging right. This view was taken from the footbridge to the south of the station. The cream building with green facings is the Railway Tavern.

Buckhurst Hill

Photograph of Vange Church

Basildon

Bishop\'s Stortford featuring a castle and heritage architecture

Bishop's Stortford

Colchester featuring markets and signage as well as a large group of people

Colchester

A public Sunday friendly match between Coopersale CC and Old Sectonians CC (Coopersale batting), at Coopersale, a village north from Epping, Essex, England. Coopersale Cricket Club, although previously running Saturday teams, today play only Sundays friendlies. Old Sectonians Cricket Club is a long-standing peripatetic club from Ilford, London. Camera: Canon PowerShot SX60 HS Software: File lens-corrected, optimized, perhaps cropped, with DxO PhotoLab, and likely further optimized with Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Epping

Across the village green from the east at Matching Green, Essex, England

Harlow

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