Braxted Park, Witham

Name: Braxted Park
Address: Braxted Park Estate, Great Braxted, Witham, CM8 3EN, Witham, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1621 890300

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Braxted Park, formerly called Braxted Lodge, is a country house in the Queen Anne style set in a landscaped 2,000 acre park near the village of Great Braxted, Essex. In the Domesday Book of 1086, Eudo Dapifer is shown as owner of the manor. All Saints' Church, originally built in about 1115 and restored in the 18th century, also lies within the park grounds. ()

Elevation: 151 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 51°48'22"N, 0°41'21"E

Address

Braxted Park Estate, Great Braxted, Witham, CM8 3ENWitham United Kingdom

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+44 1621 890300

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Day trips

Braxted Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Wilkin & Sons, Cressing Temple, Layer Marney Tower, Heybridge.

2.8 miE
Museum
Wilkin & Sons, Tiptree
72 min walk • Wilkin & Sons Limited is a manufacturer of preserves, marmalades and associated products established in Tiptree, Essex, England in 1885, and known for its "Tiptree" brand of fruit preserves.
4 miNW
Historical place, Museum, History museum
Cressing Temple, Braintree
103 min walk • Cressing Temple is an ancient monument situated between Witham and Braintree in Essex, close to the villages of Cressing and White Notley.
4.7 miE
Museum, History museum, Observation decks and towers
Layer Marney Tower
121 min walk • Layer Marney Tower is a Tudor palace, composed of buildings, gardens and parkland, dating from 1520 situated in Layer Marney, Essex, England, between Colchester and Maldon. The building was designated Grade I listed in 1952.
4.4 miS
Area
Heybridge, Maldon
114 min walk • Heybridge is a civil parish and large village, large enough to be a town in the Maldon district of Essex, England. It is adjacent to Maldon, near the River Blackwater.
4.3 miN
Music venue
Coggeshall Grange Barn, Coggeshall
109 min walk • Grange Barn is a historic timber-framed building in Coggeshall, Essex, England. Grange Barn was built by the Cistercians in the 13th century to serve Coggeshall Abbey. It underwent significant structural alteration in the 14th century. It is Grade I listed.
4.8 miN
Church
St Peter ad Vincula, Coggeshall
122 min walk • St Peter ad Vincula in Coggeshall, Essex, is one of a group of oversized churches built following the success of the early wool-trade in the East Anglia area. It is Grade I listed.
2.5 miE
Windmill
Messing Maypole Mill, Tiptree
65 min walk • Messing Maypole Mill is a grade II listed Tower mill at Tiptree, Essex, England which has been converted to a residence. Prior to boundary changes made when the civil parish of Tiptree was established in 1934, the mill was in the parish of Tolleshunt Knights.
3.2 miSW
Church
St Peter's
81 min walk • St Peter's Church is a redundant church in the village of Wickham Bishops, Essex, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is cared for by the Friends of Friendless Churches.
4.2 miS
Park
Chigborough Lakes
108 min walk • Chigborough Lakes is an 18.6 hectare nature reserve in Maldon in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. This area of former gravel pits has diverse habitats, lakes, marshes, willow carr, grazed grassland and scrub.
1.3 miS
Park
Shut Heath Wood
33 min walk • Shut Heath Wood is a 20.2 hectare nature reserve Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. Over half this site is managed as farmland, and the rest is ancient oak woodland also has coppiced sweet chestnut and hornbeam, with an understorey of ash, elder and hazel.
4 miE
Monastery, Church
St. John The Baptist Monastery
104 min walk • The Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist is a monastic community for both men and women, directly under the Ecumenical Patriarchate. It is located in Tolleshunt Knights, near Maldon, Essex, in England, and is the oldest Orthodox religious community in the UK.