tourist attraction in Cowdray Centre

Release your wild side & discover over 260 species in 60 acres of beautiful parkland & lakes.

Essex Wildlife Trust is the county's leading conservation charity. We have 11 Visitor Centres, 87 Nature Reserves, 2 Nature Parks & manage 8200 acres.

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The RSPB is the country's largest nature conservation charity, inspiring everyone to give nature a home in Suffolk.

The Strangers pub is a child friendly 4 acre site, situated within an area of outstanding natural beauty. Come and enjoy the Essex countryside.

This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John.

The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded in c.1100 and an impressive example of early Norman architecture.

Colchester Castle Park is situated to the north east of Colchester Town Centre and is divided into the Upper Park and Lower Park by the Roman Wall that crosses

This reserve is one of the few remnants of the ancient woodland that covered East Anglia. Records show there has been woodland here since at least the 1600s

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Open all day, every day this 80 acre nature reserve is designated as a Local Wildlife Site and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Cymbeline Meadows is a 74 ha area of working farm land comprising a rich variety of habitats including pastures, arable fields, meadows, woodland and the meandering river Colne.