Coggeshall

Coggeshall is a town of 4,700 people (2011) in Essex on the River Blackwater. It has almost 300 listed buildings and a market whose charter was granted in 1256 by King Henry III.

Understand
Coggeshall was a Saxon settlement on the Roman road Stane Street, though the area has been settled since the Mesolithic period. There is evidence of a Roman villa or settlement before then and the town lies on Stane Street, which may have been built on a much earlier track. The drainage aqueducts of Stane Street are still visible in the cellar of the Chapel Inn today. Roman coins dating from 31 BC to AD 395 have been found in the area and Coggeshall has been considered the site of a Roman station mentioned in the Itineraries of Antoninus.

Coggeshall is situated at a ford of the River Blackwater, part of another path running from the Blackwater Valley to the Colne Valley. Where these paths crossed a settlement started.

By car
On the A120 between Braintree and Colchester.

By bus
First Essex number 370 between Chelmsford and Colchester (via Braintree) stops in the town every 30 minutes Monday–Saturday and every two hours on Sunday (2022).

See

 * The town clock was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1887 and the clockhouse was at one point a school for the poor children of the town and later housed an award-winning tearoom. It is a wine bar.
 * Nunn's Bridge, a wrought iron footbridge on a Public Right of Way crossing the River Blackwater was erected in 1892. It is unique in its design, and was made and installed by local blacksmith and social campaigner Henry 'Dick' Nunn after the previous wooden bridge was washed away and authorities refused to replace it.
 * The town clock was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1887 and the clockhouse was at one point a school for the poor children of the town and later housed an award-winning tearoom. It is a wine bar.
 * Nunn's Bridge, a wrought iron footbridge on a Public Right of Way crossing the River Blackwater was erected in 1892. It is unique in its design, and was made and installed by local blacksmith and social campaigner Henry 'Dick' Nunn after the previous wooden bridge was washed away and authorities refused to replace it.
 * The town clock was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1887 and the clockhouse was at one point a school for the poor children of the town and later housed an award-winning tearoom. It is a wine bar.
 * Nunn's Bridge, a wrought iron footbridge on a Public Right of Way crossing the River Blackwater was erected in 1892. It is unique in its design, and was made and installed by local blacksmith and social campaigner Henry 'Dick' Nunn after the previous wooden bridge was washed away and authorities refused to replace it.