Colchester

COLCHESTER - AT A GLANCE

• The centrepiece of this historic town is Colchester Castle – Europe’s largest Norman keep built on the foundations of a significant Roman temple, and now an exemplary museum.
   
• The town’s friendly shopping streets are lined with Tudor-beamed buildings and elegant Victorian architecture, and the surrounding countryside has flower meadows and picture-postcard villages galore.
   
• By train you can get to Colchester, north east of London, in less than 1 hour.