Great Braxted is a Town in the county of Essex.

Retail in Great Braxted

There are great places to visit near Great Braxted including some great towns, castles, woodlands, airports, historic buildings, cities, villages, country parks, shopping centres, parks and nature reserves.

Don't miss Colchester, Epping, Maldon, Southend-on-Sea, Saffron Walden, Braintree, and Basildon's towns if visiting the area around Great Braxted.

Castles to visit near Great Braxted include Colchester Castle.

Great Braxted has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Epping Forest, and Bedfords Park.

Airports to visit near Great Braxted include London Southend Airport, and London Stansted Airport.

Great Braxted has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like Audley End House and Gardens, and Chelmsford Cathedral.

The area around Great Braxted's best cities can be found at Chelmsford.

Hatfield Peverel is a great place to visit close to Great Braxted if you like villages.

Country Parks to visit near Great Braxted include Thorndon Country Park.

Don't miss Lakeside Shopping Centre's shopping centres if visiting the area around Great Braxted.

Bedfords Park is one of Great Braxted's best, nearby parks to visit in Great Braxted.

The area close to Great Braxted boasts some of the best nature reserves including Bedfords Park.

Great Braxted History

There are some historic monuments around Great Braxted:

• Long mortuary enclosure and round barrow 160m south west of Frame Farm
• Rivenhall long mortuary enclosure
• Gore decoy 760m south east of Lauriston Farm
• Beckingham Hall (gatehouse and enclosure, walls including turrets)
• Mill Mound: a bowl barrow 300m south-west of Beckingham Hall
• Circular brick kilns, W H Collier Brick and Tile Works, Church Lane
• Anglo-Saxon cemetery 150m east of Easterford Mill
• Bowl barrow in Conyfield Wood, 570m NNE of Messing Park Farm
• Woodham Walter Hall: an early C16 house and its associated garden earthworks
• The rampart S of Haynes Green
• Hatfield Priory
• Roman villa 450m south of Warren's Farm
• Roman villa, Anglo-Saxon hall, cemetery and church site, around and to the north and east of St Mary and All Saints Church
• Mound E of Basin Road
• Blunts Hall ringwork
• Pumping station
• Complex of cropmarks including barrows E of Hoemill Barns
• The medieval leper hospital of St Giles
• Coggeshall Abbey
• Cressing Temple
• Wickham Bishops timber trestle railway viaduct