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Colchester is a town, and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester

Colchester (borough)

Colchester is a Non-metropolitan district and borough in Essex, England, the district is named after its main town, Colchester. The borough covers an area of and stretches from Dedham Vale on the Suffolk, England border in the north to Mersea Island on the Colne Estuary in the south....
, in Essex

Essex

Essex is a counties of England in the East of England England. The county town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common near the village of Langley, Essex, close to the Hertfordshire border, which reaches ....
, England

England

List of English cities by population

This is a list of the largest cities and towns of England ordered by population. The populations are United Kingdom Census 2001 figures from the Office for National Statistics , using the Key Statistics for Urban Areas figures, that attempt to divorce the populations of towns and cities from the Local Authority district that they are containe...
. As the oldest recorded Roman town, Colchester claims to be the oldest town in Britain

Oldest town in Britain

The Oldest town in Britain is a title claimed by a number of settlements in Great Britain....
. It was for a time the capital of Roman Britain and also claims to have the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
's oldest recorded market

Market town

Market town or market right is a law term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to host Market, distinguishing them from villages and city....
.

Colchester is 56 miles (90 km) northeast of London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. It is connected to the capital by the A12 road and the Great Eastern Main Line

Great Eastern Main Line

The Great Eastern Main Line is a major railway line of the National Rail, which connects Liverpool Street station in the City of London with destinations in East London, England and the East of England, including Ipswich, Norwich and several coastal resorts....
.

Roman Colchester Colchester is claimed to be the oldest recorded town

Oldest town in Britain

The Oldest town in Britain is a title claimed by a number of settlements in Great Britain....
in Britain on the grounds that it was mentioned by Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Natural History ....
in AD 77.

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Colchester is a town, and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester

Colchester (borough)

Essex

England

List of English cities by population

Oldest town in Britain

The Oldest town in Britain is a title claimed by a number of settlements in Great Britain....
. It was for a time the capital of Roman Britain and also claims to have the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Market town

London

Great Eastern Main Line

History

Roman Colchester

Colchester is claimed to be the oldest recorded town

Oldest town in Britain

The Oldest town in Britain is a title claimed by a number of settlements in Great Britain....
in Britain on the grounds that it was mentioned by Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder

Celt

Celts , is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic languages. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the Modern Celts of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic culture....
ic name was Camulodunon, meaning 'the fortress of (the war god) Camulos'. Following the Roman conquest of Britain

Roman conquest of Britain

By AD 43, the time of the main Roman invasion of Britain, Great Britain had already frequently been the target of invasions, planned and actual, by forces of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire....
in AD 43, a Roman legionary fortress was established and the name Camulodunon was modified to the Roman spelling of 'Camulodunum'. Camulodunum served as the first Roman capital of Britain, but was attacked and destroyed during Boudica

Boudica

Boudica was a queen of the Iceni tribe of what is now known as East Anglia in England, who led an uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire....
's rebellion in AD 61. Sometime after the destruction, London became the capital of the province of Britannia

Britannia

Britannia was the term originally used by the Roman Empire to refer to the island of Great Britain. The term was later used to describe a Roman province covering much of the island, apart from the area beyond the Antonine Wall belonging to the Picts in the north, which was known as Caledonia....
but it would seem that the council of the provincial natives still met at Colchester, where the Temple to the Divine Claudius

Temple of Claudius, Colchester

The Temple of Claudius or Temple of the Deified Claudius built in Camulodunum around 44.Colchester Castle is built on the remains of its podium or foundations, which the castle's Normans builders assumed was solid ground, and the castle overall was built out of spolia from this and the ruins of other Roman buildings in the town....
served as the seat of this council. Later, when the Roman frontier moved north (c. AD 49), Camulodunum became a colonia

Colonia (Roman)

A Roman colonia was originally a Roman Empire outpost established in conquered territory to secure it. Eventually, however, the term came to denote the highest status of Roman city....
known as Colonia Claudia Victricensis. In 2004 Colchester Archaeological Trust discovered the remains of a Roman Circus (chariot race track) underneath the Garrison in Colchester, a unique find in Britain.

Sub-Roman and Saxon Colchester

There is evidence of hasty re-organisation of Colchester's defences around 400 AD, including the blocking of the Balkerne Gate . Archaeological excavations have shown that public buildings were abandoned, although the 8th-century chronicler Nennius

Nennius

Nennius, or Nemnivus, is either of two shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history of Wales. The better known of the two is Nennius, the student of Elvodugus....
mentioned the town, which he called Caer Colun, in his list of the 30 most important cities in Britain.

Dr. John Morris (1913 - June 1977) the English historian who specialised in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book "The Age of Arthur" (1973) that as the descendents of Romanised Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome the name "Camelot" of Arthurian legend was probably a reference to the capital of Britannia

Britannia

Camulodunum

Camulodunum is the Ancient Rome name for the ancient settlement which is today's Colchester, a town in Essex, England. Camulodunum is the Oldest town in Britain in England as recorded by the Romans, existing as a Celtic settlement before the Ancient Rome conquest, when it became the first Roman town, and eventually a settlement of discharged...
) in Roman times.

The archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler was the first to propose that the lack of early Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading tribes in the south and east of Great Britain starting from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, lasting until the Norman conquest of England of 1066....
finds in a triangle between London, Colchester and St Albans

St Albans

Saint Albans is a city in southern Hertfordshire, England, around north of central London, which forms the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans....
could indicate a 'sub-Roman triangle' where British rule continued after the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. Since then however, excavations have revealed some early Saxon occupation, including a 5th-century wooden hut built on the ruins of a Roman house in present-day Lion Walk. The Saxons called the town Colne ceaster, the Roman fortress of 'Colonia'. The tower of Holy Trinity Church is late Saxon work. Vikings from East Anglia

East Anglia

East Anglia is a region of eastern England. It was named after one of the ancient Heptarchy, the Kingdom of the East Angles, which was in turn named after the homeland of the Angles, Angeln, in northern Germany....
overran Colchester and most of Essex in the late 9th century; the town remained in Viking hands until 920 when it was besieged and recaptured by the army of Edward the Elder

Edward the Elder

Edward the Elder was Kingdom of England . He was the son of Alfred the Great and Alfred's wife, Ealhswith, and became King upon his father's death in 899....
.

Medieval and Tudor Colchester

Medieval Colchester's main landmark is Colchester Castle

Colchester Castle

Colchester Castle in Colchester, Essex , is an example of a largely complete Norman architecture castle, the whit tower of the tower of london was based upon this....
, which is an 11th century Norman keep, and built atop the vaults of the old Roman temple

Roman temple

In the ancient religion of Roman paganism, practitioners often performed their worship at a temple....
. There are notable medieval ruins in Colchester, including the surviving gateway of the Benedictine

Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy....
abbey of St. John the Baptist

St. John's Abbey, Colchester

Colchester Abbey: A Benedictine monastery founded by Eudo, son of Hubert de Ria, seneschal of King William II in 1096.This particular location was chosen for the monastery by Eudo as it was believed to be the site of a supposed miracle....
(know locally as "St. John's Abbey”), and the ruins of the Augustinian priory

Priory

A priory is a house of men or women under religious vows headed by a prior or prioress.Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or religious sisters , or monastery of monks or nuns ....
of St. Botolph (known locally as “St. Botolph's Priory

St. Botolph's Priory

St Botolph's Priory, located in Colchester, England, was the first English Augustinian priory church, founded at the end of the eleventh century from the Anglo-Saxon minster community of Colchester....
").

In 1189, Colchester was granted its first Royal Charter

Royal Charter

A royal charter is a charter granted by a Monarch to create institutions or other forms of incorporated bodies . In the United Kingdom legal tradition a royal charter is in the form of letters patent....
by King Richard I (Richard the Lionheart

Richard I of England

Richard I was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Ireland, Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Nantes and Brittany at various times during the same period....
.) The charter was granted at Dover with the King about to embark on one of his many journeys away from England. The borough celebrated the 800th anniversary of its charter in 1989.

Between 1550 and 1600, a large number of weavers and clothmakers from Flanders

Flanders

Flanders is a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied....
emigrated to Colchester and the surrounding areas. They were famed for the production of Bays and Says cloth. An area in Colchester town centre is still known as the Dutch Quarter and many buildings there date from the Tudor

Tudor dynasty

The House of Tudor was a prominent European royal house that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms from 1485 until 1603. Founded by Henry VII of England, who, though his paternal family was Welsh people ?his grandfather was Owen Tudor? was himself also a legitimized descendent of the royal House of Lancaster....
period. During this period Colchester was one of the most prosperous wool towns in England. The old Roman wall runs along Northgate Street in the Dutch Quarter.

17th Century

In 1648, during the Second English Civil War

Second English Civil War

The Second English Civil War was the second of three wars known as the English Civil War which refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliament of England and Cavaliers from 1642 until 1652 and include the First English Civil War and the Third English Civil War ....
, a Royalist

Cavalier

Cavalier was the name used by Roundheads for a Royalist supporter of Charles I of England during the English Civil War . Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander of much of Charles I's cavalry, is often considered an archetypical Cavalier....
army led by Sir Charles Lucas

Charles Lucas

Sir Charles Lucas was an England soldier, a Cavalier commander in the English Civil War.He was the son of Sir Thomas Lucas of Colchester, England, Essex, England....
and Sir George Lisle

George Lisle

Sir George Lisle , was a Royalist leader in the English Civil War. Lisle's execution without trial, following the siege of Colchester, came to be regarded as a serious miscarriage of justice and Lisle himself was seen as a martyr to the Royalist cause....
entered the town. A pursuing Parliamentary

Roundhead

"Roundheads" was the nickname given to the Puritan supporters of Parliament of England during the English Civil War. Also known as Parliamentarians, they were the supporters of Oliver Cromwell against Charles I of England ....
army led by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Henry Ireton

Henry Ireton

Henry Ireton , was an England general in the army of Parliament of England during the English Civil War. He was the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell....
surrounded the town for eleven and a half weeks, a period known as the Siege of Colchester

Siege of Colchester

The siege of Colchester occurred in the summer of 1648 when the English Civil War reignited in several areas of Britain. Colchester found itself in the thick of the unrest when a Cavalier army on its way through East Anglia to raise support for the King, was attacked by Lord-General Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron at the head of a Parli...
. The Royalists surrendered in the late summer and their leaders Lucas and Lisle were executed in the grounds of Colchester Castle

Colchester Castle

Colchester Castle in Colchester, Essex , is an example of a largely complete Norman architecture castle, the whit tower of the tower of london was based upon this....
. A small obelisk marks the spot where they fell.

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an United Kingdom writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe....
mentions in A tour through England and Wales that the town lost 5259 people to the plague

Plague

Plague may refer to:...
in 1665, "more in proportion than any of its neighbours, or than the city of London". By the time he wrote this in 1722, however, he estimated its population to be around 40,000 (including "out-villages").

Victorian Colchester

Colchester is noted for its Victorian architecture. Significant landmarks include the Colchester Town Hall and the Jumbo Water Tower

Jumbo Water Tower

Jumbo Water Tower is a local name for the water tower at the Balkerne Gate in Colchester, Essex, England, which was named after the elephant, Jumbo....
.

In 1884 the town was struck by the Colchester earthquake

1884 Colchester earthquake

The earthquake known as the Colchester Earthquake occurred on April 22 1884, and caused considerable damage in Colchester and the surrounding villages in Essex, England....
, estimated to have been 4.7 on the Richter Scale causing extensive regional damage.

The Paxman diesels business has been associated with Colchester since 1865 when James Noah Paxman founded a partnership with the brothers Henry and Charles Davey ('Davey, Paxman, and Davey') and opened the Standard Ironworks. In 1925 Paxman produced its first spring injection oil engine and joined the English Electric Diesel Group in 1966 - later becoming part of the GEC Group. Since the 1930s the Paxman company's main business has been the production of diesel engines.

Recent history

The £22.7m eight-mile A120

A120 road

The A120 is an important trunk road in southern England. It follows the course of Stane Street , a Roman road from Standon, Hertfordshire at its western terminus to Colchester....
Colchester Eastern Bypass opened in June 1982.

Colchester and the surrounding area is currently undergoing significant regeneration.

Colchester Town Watch was founded in 2001 to provide a ceremonial guard for the Mayor of Colchester and for civic events such as the Oyster Feast. The historic re-enactors

Historical reenactment

Historical reenactment is a type of roleplay in which participants attempt to recreate some aspects of a historical event or period. This may be as narrow as a specific moment from a battle, such as the reenactment of Pickett's Charge at the Great Reunion of 1913, or as broad as an entire period....
wear a livery based on late Elizabethan dress. Colchester Town Watch is accompanied by the musicians of the Colchester Town Waits - a musical tradition dating back to the 14th century.

The Army

Colchester has been an important military garrison since the Roman

Roman Britain

Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410. The Romans referred to their province as Britannia....
era. The Colchester Garrison

Colchester Garrison

The Colchester Garrison is a British Army base located in Colchester in the county of Essex. The Colchester Garrison has been an important military base since the Roman Britain era....
is currently home to the 16th Air Assault Brigade. The army's only Military Corrective Training Centre, known colloquially within the forces and locally as 'The Glasshouse' after the original military prison in Aldershot

Aldershot

Aldershot is a town in the England county of Hampshire, located on heathland about 60 km southwest of London. The town is administered by Rushmoor Borough Council....
, is in Berechurch Hall Road, on the outskirts of Colchester.. The Centre holds servicemen and women from all three services who are sentenced to serve periods of detention

Detention (imprisonment)

Detention generally refers to a state or government holding a person in a particular area , either for interrogation, as punishment for a wrong, or as a precautionary measure while that person is suspected of posing a potential threat....
.

From 1998 to 2008 the garrision area of the town underwent massive redevelopment. A lot of the MoD land was sold for private housing development and parts of the garrison were moved. Many parts of the garrison now stand empty awaiting the second phase of the development.

Governance

The Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
for the Colchester is Bob Russell

Bob Russell (politician)

Robert Edward Russell, known as Bob Russell, is a United Kingdom politician. He has been a Liberal Democrats Member of Parliament for Colchester since 1997 ....
(LibDem

Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Lib Dem, are a Liberalism political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party ; the two parties had been SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP....
). The Mayor of Colchester is Councillor Margaret Fairley-Crowe (Conservative).

Colchester Borough Council is the local authority. Control of the borough council has passed between Tories

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
and LibDems

Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Lib Dem, are a Liberalism political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party ; the two parties had been SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP....
in recent years. The political composition of the council is (2008 election results):

Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
– 27 seats
Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Lib Dem, are a Liberalism political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party ; the two parties had been SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP....
– 23 seats
Labour
Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
– 7 seats
Others – 3 seats

The town is also represented on Essex County Council

Essex

Parish council

A Parish council is a unit of local government in Great Britain....
s.

Culture

Museums

Colchester houses several museums. The Castle Museum, found within Colchester Castle, features an extensive exhibit on Roman Colchester. Nearby are Hollytrees Museum, a social history museum with children's exhibits in the former home of Charles Gray

Charles Gray

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, and the town's Natural History Museum, located in the former All Saints' Church. Tymperley's Clock Museum, located in the town centre in a 15th century timber-framed house, once home to William Gilbert

William Gilbert

William Gilbert, also known as Gilbard, was an English physicist and a natural philosopher. He was an early Copernican principle, and passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching....
, now houses the Bernard Mason

Bernard Mason

Bernard Mason OBE was a prominent Colchester businessman and philanthropist who was born in Ipswich but lived his whole life in Colchester. He was the proprietor of Mason's printing firm from which he retired as director in 1962....
clock collection.

Arts

Opened in 1972, the Mercury Theatre is one the region's leading repertory theatres. Next door is Colchester Arts Centre, a multi-function arts venue located in the former St Mary-at-the-Walls church, and home of the Colchester Beer Festival. Headgate Theatre is also in Colchester.

firstsite is a contemporary art organisation, currently housed in the Minories, near the Castle. A new gallery, designed by Rafael Viñoly

Rafael Viñoly

Rafael Vi?oly is an Uruguayan-born architect living in the United States....
, is currently under construction nearby.

Other than the Arts Centre, live music venues in Colchester include The Twist and Charter Hall.

Sports

The town has a professional football club, Colchester United

Colchester United F.C.

Colchester United Football Club is an England association football team based in the town of Colchester, Essex.The club was formed in 1937, and briefly shared their old Layer Road home with now defunct side Colchester Town F.C....
, who compete in the Football League One

Football League One

Football League One is the second-highest division of The Football League and third-highest division overall in the English football league system....
and play home games at Colchester Community Stadium. Colchester United Ladies

Colchester United L.F.C.

Colchester United Ladies Football Club are an England ladies football team based in Colchester, Essex and are affiliated to Colchester United F.C....
play in the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division

FA Women's Premier League Southern Division

The FA Women's Premier League Southern Division is a league in the second level in the women's football pyramid in England, along with the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division division....
. Other sports teams based in the town include Colchester Rugby Football Club, Colchester Gladiators American Football Club, Colchester Weight Lifting Club and Colchester & East Essex Cricket Club. Essex County Cricket Club

Essex County Cricket Club

Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major Historic counties of England clubs which make up the England domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex....
play some of their home games at Castle Park Cricket Ground

Castle Park Cricket Ground

Castle Park Cricket Ground is an England First-class cricket ground in Colchester. The ground is in Lower Castle Park, part of the land surrounding Colchester Castle....
, home of Colchester & East Essex.

Sports facilities in Colchester include the sports centre, Colchester Leisure World, Colchester Garrison

Colchester Garrison

The Colchester Garrison is a British Army base located in Colchester in the county of Essex. The Colchester Garrison has been an important military base since the Roman Britain era....
Athletics Stadium (a co-operative facility used by both the army and civilian population), and a skatepark

Skatepark

A skatepark is a purpose-built recreational environment for skateboarders to ride and develop their technique. A skatepark may contain half-pipes, quarter pipes, handrails, funboxes, vert ramps, pyramids, banked ramps, full pipes, stairway, and any number of other objects....
.

Other

Colchester Zoo

Colchester Zoo is a zoo in Essex, England. The zoo had 547,495 visitors in 2003 and 464,684 in 2004. It features big cat and primate collections....
is a large zoo

Zoo

A Zoology garden, abbreviated to zoo, is an institution in which living animals are exhibited in captivity. In addition to their status as tourist attractions and recreational facilities, modern zoos may engage in captive breeding programs, conservation study, and educational outreach....
based on the outskirts of the town.

Twin towns

Colchester competes in the Twin Town Games against Wetzlar

Wetzlar

Wetzlar is a town in the States of Germany of Hesse, capital of the Lahn-Dill district. Located at 8? 30' E, 50? 34' N, there are approximately 54,000 inhabitants....
, Avignon

Avignon

Avignon is a Communes of France in the Vaucluse Departments of France in southeastern France with an estimated mid-2004 population of 89,300 in the city itself and a population of 290,466 in the aire urbaine at the 1999 census....
, Orleans

Orléans

Orl?ans is a city in north-central France, about 130 km southwest of Paris. It is the capital of the Loiret Departments of France and of the Centre R?gion in France....
, Tarragona

Tarragona

Tarragona is a city located in the south of Catalonia and east of Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the Spanish Tarragona and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragon?s....
, and Siena

Siena

Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site....
.

Colchester's twin towns

Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
are:
- Wetzlar
Wetzlar

Wetzlar is a town in the States of Germany of Hesse, capital of the Lahn-Dill district. Located at 8? 30' E, 50? 34' N, there are approximately 54,000 inhabitants....
, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
(1969)

- Avignon
Avignon

Avignon is a Communes of France in the Vaucluse Departments of France in southeastern France with an estimated mid-2004 population of 89,300 in the city itself and a population of 290,466 in the aire urbaine at the 1999 census....
, France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
(1972)

- Imola
Imola

Imola is a town, comune in the province of Bologna, located on the Santerno river, in the Emilia-Romagna region of north-central Italy. The town is traditionally considered the western entrance to the historical region Romagna....
, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
(1997)>

Education

Primary and secondary

As is the case for the rest of Essex, Colchester's state schooling operates a two-tier system. Two of the town's secondary schools are selective, Colchester Royal Grammar School

Colchester Royal Grammar School

See Royal Grammar School for the other schools with the name RGS.Colchester Royal Grammar School is a grammar school in Colchester, Essex, founded in AD 1206 and granted two Royal Charters by Henry VIII of England and by Elizabeth I of England ....
and Colchester County High School

Colchester County High School

Colchester County High School for Girls is a selective secondary school in Colchester for girls. It is 'parallel' to Colchester Royal Grammar School....
, the remainder being comprehensives. Comprehensive secondary schools include , Gilberd School

Gilberd School

The Gilberd School is a comprehensive school in Colchester, England.Since their opening on 12 July 1912 the buildings on North Hill, Colchester, have seen many changes, although the exterior structure is almost unaltered....
, , , , , and .

Private schools

Private schools in Colchester include Colchester High School

Colchester High School

Colchester High School is a for-profit school coeducational Independent school located in Colchester in Essex, England. The school is owned and operated by the Cognita Group....
, , and .

Tertiary

The University of Essex

University of Essex

The University of Essex is a United Kingdom campus university located near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965, the University has established itself as a centre of excellence for humanities and social sciences, and is highly rated in the United Kingdom and the world for the fields of s...
is located to the east of Colchester in Wivenhoe Park, in the civil parish of Wivenhoe

Wivenhoe

Wivenhoe is a town in northeastern Essex in the East of England. Historically Wivenhoe village, on the banks of the River Colne, and Wivenhoe Cross, on the higher ground to the north, were two separate settlements but with considerable development in the 19th century the two have merged....
. Other tertiary institutions include Colchester Sixth Form College

Colchester Sixth Form College

Colchester Sixth Form College is situated on North Hill in central Colchester, Essex, England. Established in 1987, it provides further education in the north Essex area....
and Colchester Institute

Colchester Institute

Colchester Institute is a large provider of further and higher education based in the town of Colchester.. It includes the Centre for Music and Performing Arts.Education courses are accredited by the University of Essex....
.

Transport

Colchester has a bus system (run by First Essex

First Essex

First Essex Buses Limited is owned by First Group. First Essex carries around 29 million passengers each year on a network of routes serving Essex and the surrounding areas....
, Network Colchester

Network Colchester

Network Colchester is a Tellings-Golden Miller bus operating company. It is a trading name of Burton's Coaches of Haverhill, Suffolk used for their Colchester operations....
, Hedingham Omnibuses

Hedingham Omnibuses

Hedingham Omnibuses is an Essex bus company founded shortly after WWI by Aubrey Ernest Letch, trading under his own name.Due to Letch's bad health illness, it was sold and renamed Hedingham and District Omnibuses in 1960....
and other smaller operators) which mainly centres around Colchester Temporary Bus Station in the town centre. The temporary bus station will be replaced by a permanent one further down the street by 2010.

Colchester North

Colchester railway station

Colchester railway station is the main station for Colchester in Essex, England. It is on the former Great Eastern Railway main line from London Liverpool Street to Norwich and is a junction for the line to Walton-on-the-Naze and Clacton-on-Sea which diverges from the main line to the south side to the east of the station....
station is served by National Express East Anglia services on the London - Norwich mainline

Great Eastern Main Line

Colchester to Clacton Line

|}The Sunshine Coast Line is a railway line linking Colchester to Clacton-on-sea. There is a branch to Walton-on-the-Naze. Trains to Clacton are through trains from London, while those to Walton start at Colchester on weekdays and Saturdays, but at Thorpe-le-Soken on Sundays....
.

Colchester Town railway station

Colchester Town railway station

Colchester Town railway station serves the town centre of Colchester in Essex, England. It is located on the Colchester to Clacton line and is one of only a small number of drive in/reverse out stations on the British network....
, still referred to by some as St Botolph's, is on a spur from the Colchester - Clacton line

Colchester to Clacton Line

Hythe (Essex) railway station

Hythe railway station serves the eastern areas of Colchester in Essex, England. To the west of the station there is a triangle of lines with three junctions....
station is also on the Clacton line.

Colchester in popular culture

Colchester is reputed to be the home of three of the best known English nursery rhymes: 'Old King Cole', 'Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty is a character in a Nursery rhyme typically portrayed as an egg . Most English language-speaking children are familiar with the rhyme:...
' and 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star'.

Local legend places Colchester as the seat of King Cole

Old King Cole

This is an article about the nursery rhyme. A legendary king of Celtic Roman Britain, about all that can be said about Old King Cole with any certainty is that:...
(or Coel) of the rhyme Old King Cole, a legendary ancient king of Britain. The name Colchester is from Old English: the place-name suffixes chester, cester, and caster derive from the Latin word castrum (fortified place). In folk etymology the name Colchester was thought of as meaning Cole's Castle, though it actually means the Roman fort 'Colonia'. In the legend Helena, the daughter of Cole, married the Roman

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
senator Constantius Chlorus

Constantius Chlorus

Flavius Valerius Constantius , also Constantius I, was an Roman emperor of the Western Roman Empire . He was commonly called Chlorus an epithet given to him by Byzantine Empire historians....
, who had been sent by Rome as an ambassador and was named as Cole's successor. Helena's son became Emperor Constantine I

Constantine I

Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus , commonly known in English_language as Constantine I, Constantine the Great, or Saint Constantine , was Roman Emperor from 306, and the undisputed holder of that office from 324 until his death in 337....
. Helena was canonised as Saint

Saint

A saint in Christianity is a human being who has been called to holiness. The term is used differently by various denominations, with some, such as the Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans distinguishing between Saints and saints....
Helena of Constantinople

Helena of Constantinople

Saint Helena also known as Saint Helen, Helena Augusta or Helena of Constantinople was the consort of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and the mother of Emperor Constantine I....
and is credited with finding the true cross

True Cross

The True Cross is the name for physical remnants which, by a Christianity tradition, are believed to be from the actual cross upon which Jesus was crucified....
and the remains of the Magi

Biblical Magi

In Christianity tradition the Magi , Three Wise Men, Three Kings or Kings from the East are said to have visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts....
. She is now the patron saint of Colchester. This is recognised in the emblem of Colchester: a cross and three crowns. A local secondary school – St Helena's – is named after her, and her statue is atop the town hall, although local legend is that it was originally a statue of Blessed Virgin Mary which was later fitted with a cross.

Colchester is also the most widely credited source of the rhyme Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty is a character in a Nursery rhyme typically portrayed as an egg . Most English language-speaking children are familiar with the rhyme:...
. During the siege of Colchester in the Civil War, a Royalist sniper known as One-Eyed Thompson sat in the belfry of the church of St Mary-at-the-Walls (Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall) and was given the nickname Humpty Dumpty, most likely because of his size, Humpty Dumpty being a common insult for the overweight. Thompson was shot down (Humpty Dumpty had a great fall) and, shortly after, the town was lost to the Parliamentarians (all the king's horses and all the king's men / couldn't put Humpty together again.) Another version says that Humpty Dumpty was a cannon on the top of the church. The church of St Mary-at-the-Walls still retains its Norman tower until the top few feet, which are a Georgian repair.

The third rhyme to come from Colchester is Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is one of the most popular England nursery rhymes. It combines the tune of the 1761 French melody ?Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman? with an English poem, "The Star" by Jane Taylor....
, which was written by Jane Taylor in the town's Dutch Quarter, and published in 1806 with the title "The Star".

Colchester has also been suggested as one of the potential sites of Camelot

Camelot

Camelot is the most famous castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century France romances and eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the fabulous Arthurian world....
, on account of having been the capital of Roman Britain and its ancient name of Camulodunum.

In George Orwell

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an England author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language....
's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic utopian and dystopian fiction by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949 in literature, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime....
, the main character, Winston Smith, thinks back to his childhood and his first memories of war, recalling: "Perhaps it was the time when the atomic bomb had fallen on Colchester." (Part 1, Chapter 3).

Visual Arts Facility

In November 2008, it was announced that there was a shortfall in money to complete the building of the new controversial Visual Arts Facility (Colchester's new multi-million pound arts centre). It was predicited that the total cost would be £25.5 million – £9 million more than the original estimated cost. The building currently sits uncompleted .

Notable Colcestrians

People of note that were born or have lived in Colchester include:

Sir George Bidell Airy (1801-1892) - Astronomer Royal
Astronomer Royal

Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Household of the Monarch of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675; the second is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834....
, attended Colchester Royal Grammar School
Colchester Royal Grammar School

See Royal Grammar School for the other schools with the name RGS.Colchester Royal Grammar School is a grammar school in Colchester, Essex, founded in AD 1206 and granted two Royal Charters by Henry VIII of England and by Elizabeth I of England ....
1814-1819
Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn, , is a Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter and record producer whose eclectic musical style and observational lyrics have made him one of England's most successful musicians of the past 20 years....
(1968- ) - musician, lead singer of Blur
Blur (band)

Blur are an English alternative rock band who formed in London in 1989. The four members of the band are singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree....
and co-creator of virtual cartoon rock band Gorillaz
Gorillaz

Gorillaz is a virtual band created in 1998 by Damon Albarn of alternative rock band Blur , and Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl....
Paul Allender
Paul Allender

Paul Allender is the guitarist of the British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth....
(1970–) - musician, lead guitarist of Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth

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Cub Alport
Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport

Cuthbert James McCall Alport, Baron Alport was a Conservative Party politician, Cabinet Minister, and life peer....
- Cabinet Minister, [High Commissioner] to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

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, High Steward of Colchester
High Steward of Colchester

The position of High Steward of Colchester, Essex, was established by Charles I of England in 1635 by charter. The charter, naming all the officials and councillors of the Council, stipulated that:...
John Ball (priest)
John Ball (priest)

John Ball was an English Lollard priest who took a prominent part in the Peasants' Revolt....
(d. 1381) - leader of the Peasants' Revolt
Peasants' Revolt

The Peasants' Revolt, Tyler?s Rebellion, or the Great Rising of AD 1381 was one of a number of popular revolts in late medieval Europe and is a major event in the history of England....
of 1381
Richard Bartle
Richard Bartle

Richard Allan Bartle is a British writer and game researcher, best known for being the co-author of MUD1, the first MUD. He is one of the pioneers of the massively multiplayer online game industry....
(1960 - ) - co-author of MUD, the first multi-user dungeon
MUD

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John Constable
John Constable

John Constable was an England Romanticism painting. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape art of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home?now known as "Constable Country"?which he invested with an intensity of affection....
(1776-1837) - landscape painter
Piers Courage
Piers Courage

Piers Raymond Courage was a racing driver from England. He participated in 29 World Championship Formula One Grand Prix motor racing, debuting on 2 January 1967....
(1942-1970) - Formula One
Formula One

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driver
Graham Coxon
Graham Coxon

Graham Leslie Coxon is an England singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Painting. He initially came to prominence as the guitarist, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of rock band Blur ....
(1969- ) - musician and Blur lead guitarist
John Crackstone - Mayflower Pilgrim
Cunobelin - King of the Britons, Shakespeare's
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
Cymbeline
Cymbeline

Cymbeline is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a Shakespeare's Late Romances....
Darren Day
Darren Day

Darren Day is an England actor, singer and television presenter, well known for his colourful personal life....
(1968- ) - actor and television presenter
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an United Kingdom writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe....
(1660-1731) - author and social commentator
Sue Denim - actor (The Mighty Boosh
The Mighty Boosh

The Mighty Boosh, colloquially referred to as The Boosh, is the collective name for the creators of the British comedy written by and starring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding....
), musician (Robots in Disguise
Robots in Disguise

Robots in Disguise are an England, now Berlin-based, Electro band. The group is composed of Dee Plume , Sue Denim , and a rolling live line-up of backing musicians....
, I AM X
I AM X

IAMX is the solo musical project of Chris Corner. Corner has repeatedly said that IAMX is very different from his actual, real-life personality and is a kind of quasi "act"....
, The Siblings
The Siblings

The Siblings is an Electronic -influenced musical project based in Germany. They are made up of Chris Corner and his former girlfriend Sue Denim ....
)
Neil Foster
Neil Foster

Neil Alan Foster...
(1962- ) - cricketer
William Gilbert
William Gilbert

William Gilbert, also known as Gilbard, was an English physicist and a natural philosopher. He was an early Copernican principle, and passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching....
(1544-1603) - scientist, pioneer in the field of magnetism
Magnetism

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and court physician to Elizabeth I and James I
James I of England

James VI and I was List of monarchs of Scotland as James VI, and List of English monarchs and King of Ireland as James I. He ruled in Kingdom of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, when he was only one year old, succeeding his mother Mary I of Scotland....
John Grant
John Grant (Lovejoy)

John Grant is an England crime writer, who writes under the pen name Jonathan Gash. He is the author of the Lovejoy . He wrote the novel The Incomer under the pen name Graham Gaunt....
- author of the Lovejoy
Lovejoy

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stories
Perry Groves
Perry Groves

Perry Groves is a former England football er, known chiefly for his time at Arsenal F.C., where he remains a fans' favourite to this day. He was a fast-paced player who usually played as winger , and occasionally as a striker....
- Arsenal FC footballer
Sir William Withey Gull, 1st Baronet
William Gull

Sir William Withey Gull, 1st Baronet was an England physician....
- physician to Queen Victoria's household and Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is an pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England, in late 1888....
suspect
Charles Hedger
Charles Hedger

Charles Hedger is the guitarist for the extreme metal band Cradle of Filth....
(1980- ) - musician, guitarist of Cradle Of Filth
Cradle of Filth

Cradle of Filth are an extreme metal band from Suffolk, England, formed in 1991. They have been embraced and disowned with equal fervour by various metal communities, and their particular subgenre has provoked a Cradle of Filth#Genre....
Joan Hickson
Joan Hickson

Joan Hickson Order of the British Empire was an England actor of theatre, film and television, who achieved fame in her old age playing Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the Miss Marple Miss Marple ....
(1906-1998) - actress
Matthew Hopkins
Matthew Hopkins

Matthew Hopkins was an England witchhunter whose career flourished in the time of the English Civil War. He held, or claimed to hold, the office of Witch-Finder General, though this was not a title ever bestowed by Parliament of England, and conducted witch-hunts in the counties of Suffolk, Essex, England, Norfolk and other eastern co...
(d. 1647) - Witchfinder General
Witchfinder General

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Jay Kay (1969- ) - lead singer of Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai are an England acid jazz/funk/Soul music/disco band. Jamiroquai was initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito , the Brand New Heavies, Galliano , and Corduroy ....
Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski

Klaus Kinski was a German actor, famous for his ability to project onscreen intensity, and for his explosive temperament. He acted in over 130 films....
(1926-1991) - actor, director, former German POW in Colchester during the World War II
Clive Lythgoe
Clive Lythgoe

Clive Lythgoe , was a leading British classical pianist of the 1950s and 1960s, popular in both the UK and the United States. He was known to American audiences as "London's Liberace", he frequented Carnaby Street and claimed to have inspired the Beatles' choice of collarless suits after Brian Epstein spotted him wearing a Pierre Cardin crea...
(1927–2006), classical pianist
Bernard Mason
Bernard Mason

Bernard Mason OBE was a prominent Colchester businessman and philanthropist who was born in Ipswich but lived his whole life in Colchester. He was the proprietor of Mason's printing firm from which he retired as director in 1962....
- businessman, philanthropist, clock collector
Philip Morant
Philip Morant

Philip Morant was an English people clergyman, author and historian.He was educated at Abingdon School and Pembroke College, Oxford. Ordained in 1722, he began his association with the county of Essex with a curacy at Great Waltham....
(18th century)- parish priest of St Mary at the Walls, author of The History & Antiquities of the County of Essex
Ralph Morse (actor)
Ralph Morse (actor)

Ralph Morse is an English actor, singer, teacher, guitarist and writer of historically-based dramas. He is also a notable neopaganism in the UK....
(1955 - ) and his country music alias Johnny Cashbox
Johnny Cashbox

Johnny Cashbox is the alias of Ralph Morse . Cashbox is a country music tribute to the legendary Johnny Cash and features all the hits, "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", "Walk The Line", "Boy Named Sue" etc....
Graham Napier
Graham Napier

Graham Richard Napier is an England cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm seam bowling bowler.Napier has played first-class cricket for his home county of Essex County Cricket Club since the outset of his senior career in 1997....
(1980- ) - cricketer
Martin Newell
Martin Newell (musician)

Martin Newell , also known as "the Wild Man of Wivenhoe", is an England rock music musician, singer, guitarist, songwriter, poet and author. He grew up in an army family in various parts of England and the Far East....
(1953- ) - musician, poet, author.
Sheila Nicholls
Sheila Nicholls

Sheila Elizabeth Nicholls is a United Kingdom singer-songwriter, now residing in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, California, California....
(1970- ) - streaker, later a musician
Dermot O'Leary
Dermot O'Leary

Dermot O'Leary is a presenter of radio presenter and television presenter, best known for presenting Big Brother's Little Brother and, currently, The X Factor ....
(1973- ) - BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio radio station and the List of most-listened-to radio programs in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult contemporary music or Album-orientated rock, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres....
DJ
Sir Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose, Order of Merit , Royal Society is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College....
(1931– ), mathematical physicist and philosopher
Steven Pimlott
Steven Pimlott

Steven Charles Pimlott Order of the British Empire was an English opera and theatre theatre director and actor. An obituary in The Times hailed him as "one of the most versatile and inventive theatre directors of his generation"....
(1953-2007), opera and theatre director and actor
Dave Rowntree
Dave Rowntree

David Alexander De Horne Rowntree is an English musician, animator and political activist. He is best-known as the drummer of the alternative rock band Blur ....
(1964- ) - musician, drummer for Blur
Jeremy Spake
Jeremy Spake

Jeremy Spake is an England television presenter.Jeremy began his career in 1996, making regular appearances on the documentary series Airport , where he worked as the Ground Services Manager for Aeroflot - Russian Airlines....
(1968- ) - TV personality
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) - Baptist preacher, minster of the Metropolitan Tabernacle
Metropolitan Tabernacle

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Darren Styles
Darren Styles

Darren Styles, born Darren James Mew is a British Hardcore DJ, Record Producer, song writer and occasional singer who achieved success touring at events such as Hardcore Heaven and Hardcore Paradise....
(1975- ) - DJ, record producer, singer
Jane Taylor
Jane Taylor

Jane Taylor , was an England poet and novelist. She wrote the words for the song Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star in 1806 at age 23, while living in Shilling Street, Lavenham, Suffolk....
(1783-1824) - poet and author of the lyrics to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is one of the most popular England nursery rhymes. It combines the tune of the 1761 French melody ?Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman? with an English poem, "The Star" by Jane Taylor....
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990....
(1925- ) - former Prime Minister, worked in Colchester as a research chemist during 1940s.
Catherine Wass (1957- ) - world champion powerlifter
Archibald Wavell (1883-1950) British Field-Marshal during World War II, Viceroy of India.
Mary Whitehouse
Mary Whitehouse

Mary Whitehouse Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom activist for what she perceived to be values of morality and decency derived from her Christianity faith....
(1910-2001) - morality campaigner.
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans
Laming Worthington-Evans

Sir Worthington Laming Worthington-Evans, 1st Baronet Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire was a UK Conservative Party politician....
(1868-1931) - Secretary of State for War, Postmaster General

Colchester

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