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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Colchester
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Colchester is a city in Essex, East Anglia. Home to the University of Essex, the Colchester…
Chelmsford
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Chelmsford is is largely a commercial city that is the county town of Essex, England.
Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea is a seaside resort about 40 miles east of London at the mouth of the River Thames Estuary.Destinations
Basildon
Basildon is a town in Essex, England. While not usually high on any list of places-to-go for people other than Depeche Mode fans, Basildon does have a few things to keep you occupied if you end up there.Harwich
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Harwich, pronounced 'Harich' or 'Harridge', is a port town in Essex, East Anglia.
Brentwood
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Brentwood is a town in Essex, England, in the London commuter belt 20 miles north-east of Charing Cross and close to the M25 motorway.
Clacton
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Clacton in Essex, also known as Clacton-on-Sea, is the largest town in the Tendring Peninsula.
Maldon
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Maldon is a town and civil parish on the Blackwater estuary in Essex, England.
Braintree
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Braintree is a town in Essex, England. For a town of its size it boasts very few amenities.
Epping
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Separated from England's capital city by Epping Forest - almost 6,000 acres of ancient woodland - Epping is a historic market town in Essex.
Witham
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Witham is a town and civil parish in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England, with a population of 25,353.
Canvey Island
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Canvey Island is a town, civil parish and reclaimed island in the Thames estuary, near Southend-on-Sea, in the Castle Point district, in the county of Essex, England.
Saffron Walden
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Saffron Walden is a market town in Essex, East Anglia.
Billericay
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Billericay is a town in Essex with a population of about 34,000.
Coggeshall
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Coggeshall is a town of 4,700 people in Essex on the River Blackwater.
Halstead
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Halstead is a town and civil parish in the Braintree District of Essex, England.
Great Dunmow
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Great Dunmow is a small town in Essex, England. It lies roughly six miles west of Stansted Airport and 12 miles north-west of the county town Chelmsford.
Thaxted
Thaxted is a town in the Essex countryside. Despite its small feel and rural character, the town and its surrounding villages are bursting with culture.Leigh-on-Sea
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Leigh-on-Sea is a beautiful old fishing port on the London side of Southend-on-Sea on the south coast of Essex.
Wickford
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Wickford is a town and civil parish in the south of the English county of Essex, with a population of 33,486.
Burnham-on-Crouch
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Burnham-on-Crouch is a historic town situated on the banks of the River Crouch in the East Coast of England.
Stansted Mountfitchet
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Stansted Mountfitchet is an English village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, near the Hertfordshire border, 35 miles north of London.
Frinton-on-Sea
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Frinton-on-Sea is a small seaside town in the Tendring district of Essex.
Lee Valley
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The Lee Valley Regional Park is a 26-mile long park in Essex, Hertfordshire and London in England.
Foulness Island
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Foulness Island is Essex's largest island. There is nothing much for tourists to see, due to the restrictions put in place by the UK Ministry of Defence regarding access to the island.
Essex
- Type: Region with 1,800,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county in England (use Q21272241 for administrative non-metropolitan county)
- Neighbors: Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, London and Suffolk
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location: East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of centre
51.7845° or 51° 47' 4" northLongitude of centre
0.5745° or 0° 34' 28" eastPopulation
1,800,000Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)GeoNames ID
11609034Wikidata ID
Q23240Essex Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Essex
- Arabic: Essex
- Arabic: إسكس
- Aragonese: Essex
- Armenian: Էսեքս
- Armenian: Էսսեքս
- Asturian: Essex
- Azerbaijani: Esseks
- Balinese: Essex
- Basque: Essex
- Belarusian: Эсекс
- Belarusian: Эсэкс
- Bengali: এসেক্স
- Breton: Kontelezh Essex
- Bulgarian: Есекс
- Catalan: Essex
- Cebuano: Essex
- Chechen: Эссекс
- Chinese: Essex
- Chinese: 埃塞克斯郡
- Chinese: 雅息士郡
- Chinese: 雅適士郡
- Cornish: Essex
- Croatian: Essex (grofovija)
- Croatian: Essex
- Czech: Essex
- Danish: Essex
- Dutch: Essex
- Egyptian Arabic: ايسيكس
- English: Ceremonial County Essex
- Esperanto: Essex
- Estonian: Essex
- Finnish: Essex
- French: Essex
- Galician: Essex
- German: Essex
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌰𐌷𐍃
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌹 𐌴𐍃𐍃𐌴𐌺𐍃
- Greek: Έσσεξ, Αγγλία
- Greek: Έσσεξ, Ανατολική Αγγλία
- Greek: Έσσεξ
- Gujarati: એસેક્સ
- Hebrew: אסקס
- Hindi: एसेक्स
- Hungarian: Essex
- Icelandic: Essex
- Ido: Essex
- Indonesian: Essex
- Interlingua: Essex
- Irish: Essex
- Italian: Essex
- Japanese: エセックス
- Japanese: エセックス州
- Kannada: ಎಸ್ಸೆಕ್ಸ್
- Korean: 에식스주
- Kurdish: Essex
- Ladin: Essex
- Latin: Essexia
- Latvian: Eseksa
- Lithuanian: Eseksas
- Luxembourgish: Grofschaft Essex
- Macedonian: Есекс
- Malay: Essex
- Manx: Essex
- Marathi: एसेक्स
- Min Nan Chinese: Essex
- Mirandese: Essex
- Northern Frisian: Essex (Graafskap)
- Northern Frisian: Essex
- Norwegian: Essex
- Norwegian Bokmål: Essex
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Essex
- Occitan (post 1500): Essex
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Ēastseaxe
- Ossetian: Эссекс
- Persian: اسکس
- Polish: Essex
- Portuguese: Essex
- Romanian: Essex
- Russian: Эссекс
- Scots: Essex
- Serbian: Есекс
- Serbo-Croatian: Essex
- Slovak: Essex
- Slovenian: Essex
- Spanish: Essex
- Swedish: Essex
- Swiss German: Essex
- Tajik: Эссекс
- Tamil: எஸ்ஸேஸ்
- Telugu: యెస్సెక్ష్
- Thai: เอสเซกซ์
- Turkish: Essex
- Turkish: Törensel Essex Kontluğu
- Uighur: Ésséks
- Ukrainian: Ессекс
- Urdu: ایسیکس
- Uzbek: Essex
- Vietnamese: Essex
- Volapük: Essex
- Waray (Philippines): Essex
- Welsh: Essex
- Welsh: Swydd Essex
- Western Frisian: Esseks
- Western Panjabi: ایسکس
- Wu Chinese: 埃塞克斯郡
- Yiddish: עסעקס
- Yue Chinese: 埃塞克斯郡
- Yue Chinese: 雅息士
- Yue Chinese: 雅息士郡
- Yue Chinese: 雅適士郡
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