The town of Colchester

 

Spent the whole morning going around the town of Colchester a very small, cute and an ancient town in the typical English fashion. Colchester name to fame is as one of the first towns established by the Romans when they established their kingdom in this region around 43 A.D. and it is one of the oldest recorded town of Britain. It was also the capital of Roman Britain. In fact, it derives its Nam from the Roman word, Coloni means human settlement. Situated on the banks of River Colin it is about fifty miles from London and is in the Essex District. Destroyed and rebuilt many times today it has a war memorial of the first world war veterans with a number of beautiful laid lawns and gardens with bright coloured flowers. The Colchester Castle is an ancient castle of Norman times with beautiful laws all around it. It also has a Georgian House, called the Holly Tree House that has a museum in which one can see three centuries back utensils, clothing, portraits and a huge collection of watches. The Holly tree house was built in 1718 for a Elizabeth Corlinelsen, who died soon with in a year of marriage and then the house passed to Sarah Creffeild and her husband Charles Grey who was a member of Parliament from Colchester for five terms in the reign of King George II and King George III and who lived here till 1827.It is primarily his family collection that we see. He was the one who purchased a lot of land around the castle and planted a number of Holly trees around it. This house has preserved a number of potrarits, clocks and other items of that period.Thanks Deepti for taking time and showing us around this beautiful city, its castles and museums. Indeed a beautiful and lovely day.