Beyond the City Local Attractions
Cambridge
- Fitzwilliam Museum fine museum crammed with antiquities
- Punting floating gently along the "Backs" of the colleges
- Cambridge University breathtaking architecture
- King's College Chapel fabulous fan vaulting and stained glass
Chelmsford
- Hyde Hall 360-acre Royal Horticultural Society gardens
- Chelmsford Cathedral cathedral with a needle-like spire
- Chelmsford Museum has the fine Tunstill collection of glasses
- Essex Police Museum try fingerprinting and wearing handcuffs
Leigh-on-Sea
- Leigh Library a former rectory standing on cliffs above the town
- National Nature Reserve estuary birds and wide tidal flats
- Our Lady of Lourdes bells ring out the Ave Maria every hour
- St Clements Church church dating from around 1400
Canterbury
- Canterbury Cathedral magnificent medieval cathedral
- St Augustine's Abbey abbey ruins dedicated to St Augustine
- Museum of Canterbury with Rupert Bear Museum
- Herne Bay traditional English seaside magic
Brighton
- Royal Pavilion exotic pleasure palace for a prince
- Brighton Pier Britain's finest Victorian pier, fun all year round
- Brighton Marina 1,600 berths in the UK's largest marina
- The Lanes a shopper's paradise of independent shops and boutiques
Windsor
- Windsor Castle royal castle high on a chalk cliff
- Legoland amusement park built from tiny bricks
- Eton College public school founded in 1440 by Henry VI
- Savill Garden delightful 1930s woodland garden