You can visit Hadleigh Castle for free and admire the ruins that have succumbed to the soft London clay on which it was built. The castle was first built in …
The Crowstone’s copper plate – now turned green – records that it was erected in 1836 and marked the seaward limit of the River Thames as then controlled by the …
The Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity is at the top of Rayleigh High Street. A church existed on the site in Saxon times and the present …