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The Smithy (Helen C Walls Jewellery)
The Smithy is a jewellery boutique and workshop run by goldsmith Helen C Walls…
CounterEvans Gifts and Interiors
Evans Gifts and Interiors trades from a double-fronted Regency building at 14…
RestPuttocks Farm
Puttocks Farm is a working arable farm at Philpot End, on the edge of Great…
TableThe Mogul
The Mogul has anchored South Street in Manningtree under head chef Minar Miah,…
LarderLloyds Family Butchers
Lloyds Family Butchers occupies a shop at 2-4 George Street in Saffron Walden,…
CultureThe Institute
The Institute stands at 15 Bocking End, a Grade II listed building given to…
Grounds
Bishop's Coffee
Sudbury, ENG
Bishops Coffee occupies 101 East Street in Sudbury, across the street from The White Horse pub, and…
Coffee Squared
Chelmsford, ENG
Coffee Squared is a family-run, independent coffee shop and licensed bar on Beaulieu Square in…
Colchester Coffee Collective
Colchester, ENG
Colchester Coffee Collective roasts in small batches from a unit on Maldon Road, describing itself…
The Booking Hall Cafe
Rayne, ENG
A cafe at Rayne Station on the Flitchway, near Braintree in Essex, serving cake, lunch and coffee.…
Toast
Chelmsford, ENG
TOAST describes itself as an independent British coffee chain founded by three friends, with…
Winners Tea Rooms
Finchingfield, ENG
A tearoom on Finchingfield's village green serving brunch, afternoon tea, and coffee and cake, with…
Table
Belgique
Epping, ENG
A patisserie and cafe trading since 2006, working mainly in celebration cakes: fresh cream and…
Hobson's Deli & Café
Manningtree, ENG
Hobson's sits on the High Street of Manningtree, often billed as the smallest town in England, and…
Meadow Hill Coffee Shop & Deli
Great Dunmow, ENG
Carol runs this coffee shop and deli from a High Street unit in Great Dunmow, making scones, cakes,…
New Mexico Restaurant
Sawbridgeworth, ENG
A Tex-Mex restaurant and cocktail bar at Bells Walk on London Road, Sawbridgeworth, serving the…
Old Bakery Cafe
Dedham, ENG
The Old Bakery Cafe occupies a pink-painted building on Dedham's High Street, close to the…
Sark Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Maldon, ENG
Turkish and Mediterranean restaurant on Maldon High Street run by a chef with over three decades of…
Star of India
Sawbridgeworth, ENG
An Indian restaurant at 51 London Road, taking orders on 01279 726512, online or for delivery. The…
The Lower Street Brasserie
Stansted Mountfitchet, ENG
A restaurant on Lower Street in Stansted Mountfitchet, in a 17th-century listed building with…
The Mogul
Manningtree, ENG
The Mogul has anchored South Street in Manningtree under head chef Minar Miah, who led a…
Larder
Ansell & Sons
Maldon, ENG
Ansell and Sons has traded as a butcher from 5 High Street since 1796, when William and Sarah…
Blackwells Farm Shop
Coggeshall, ENG
Blackwells occupies Herons Farm on Colne Road, where the family has farmed since the 1930s and…
Buntings
Coggeshall, ENG
Dean and Paul took over this Church Street butcher's shop in 2008, bringing 65 years of combined…
Clarke & Son Butchers
Sudbury, ENG
Clark & Son Meats operates from Foundry House in Long Melford, supplying the catering and retail…
Dorringtons
Harlow, ENG
Dorringtons has been baking since 1919 and works from a head office on Station Road in…
Great Garnetts
Barnston, near Great Dunmow, ENG
Great Garnetts is a family-run pig and turkey farm on High Easter Road at Bishops Green, Barnston,…
Hollow Trees Farm
Ipswich, ENG
Farm shop at Semer, near Ipswich, selling its own produce alongside goods from local producers,…
Lloyds Family Butchers
Saffron Walden, ENG
Lloyds Family Butchers occupies a shop at 2-4 George Street in Saffron Walden, established in 2013.…
Culture
Beth Chatto's Plants & Gardens
Elmstead Market, ENG
Beth Chatto began clearing scrub and boggy hollows beside White Barn House in 1960, developing…
Bishop's Stortford Museum
Bishop's Stortford, ENG
Part of South Mill Arts, with the museum display on the second floor. Local history galleries are…
Epping And Ongar Railway
Epping, ENG
The Epping Ongar Railway runs on the edge of Epping Forest, reached by a short trip on the Central…
Fry Art Gallery
Saffron Walden, ENG
The Fry Art Gallery opened in 1987 to hold the North West Essex Collection, built around artists…
Harlow Museum & Walled Gardens
Harlow, unparished area, ENG
Harlow Museum & Walled Gardens sits on Muskham Road, open free on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,…
North House Gallery
Manningtree, ENG
Penelope Hughes-Stanton established this gallery in 1999 in the former studio of her father, the…
North Weald Airfield Museum
North Weald, ENG
The North Weald Airfield Museum occupies Ad Astra House on Hurricane Way, covering the airfield's…
Shakespeare House Gallery
Dedham, ENG
A small gallery and gift shop in a cottage on Dedham's High Street, showing paintings and other…
The Institute
Braintree, ENG
The Institute stands at 15 Bocking End, a Grade II listed building given to Braintree by the…
Workshop
Bradford Memorials
Chelmsford, ENG
Monumental masons working from The Old Coach Works on Church Street, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, now…
Essex Pottery Studio
Greenstead Green, ENG
Essex Pottery Studio operates from Greenstead Farm outside Halstead, run by Amanda as a family…
Peter Harrington Pottery
Halstead, ENG
Peter Harrington teaches pottery from his own studio at The Maltings on Chipping Hill in Halstead,…
The Smithy (Helen C Walls Jewellery)
Saffron Walden, ENG
The Smithy is a jewellery boutique and workshop run by goldsmith Helen C Walls from premises off…
Counter
Abercorn Plant & Garden Centre
Great Baddow, ENG
Abercorn has grown plants on the edge of Chelmsford since 1962, and after more than sixty years on…
Area 51 Records
Braintree, ENG
Paul Everett owns and runs this vinyl record shop on South Street in Braintree, stocking new and…
Evans Gifts and Interiors
Halstead, ENG
Evans Gifts and Interiors trades from a double-fronted Regency building at 14 High Street in…
Hart's Books
Saffron Walden, ENG
Hart's Books traces its name to Henry Hart, who set up as a printer in Saffron Walden in 1836…
Olivers Nurseries
Witham, ENG
Olivers Nurseries is a family-run garden centre on Maldon Road in Witham, combining a plant nursery…
Smitten Too
Coggeshall, ENG
Gift and homeware shop on Church Street stocking candles, ceramics, cushions and small furniture…
Cellar
Bishop Nick
Braintree, ENG
Real ale brewery on East Street founded in 2011 by Nelion Ridley, sixth generation of the family…
Claret & Brew
Manningtree, ENG
Claret & Brew is a bottle shop with a small bar on South Street in Manningtree, run by Dan…
Colchester Brewery
Wakes Colne, ENG
Colchester Brewery began in 2011 when Tom Knox, Roger Clark and Andy Bone set up a small plant at…
Essex Spirits Co (The Essex Distillery)
Chelmsford, ENG
Zane Chiswell-Rivas, a former cocktail bartender, started distilling in his grandmother's garage…
Little Earth Project
Edwardstone, ENG
Little Earth Project makes mixed fermentation beers in Suffolk, though brewing is currently paused…
Peter Watts Wines
Coggeshall, ENG
Peter Watts Wines began in 1979 at the family's cottage in nearby Feering and now trades from…
West Street Vineyard
Coggeshall, ENG
West Street Vineyard sits on the edge of Coggeshall, where Jane and Stephen Mohan planted vines and…
Snug
Mighty Oak Tap Room
Maldon, ENG
Mighty Oak Brewing Company runs its own tap room from a sixteenth-century building on Maldon High…
The Fox on the Green
Finchingfield, ENG
A free house on Finchingfield's village green, in a 16th-century coaching inn building. Serves…
The Hop Shop
Chelmsford, ENG
John Prior opened this micropub on Moulsham Street in November 2014, the first of its kind in…
The Magnet Micropub
Colchester, ENG
Colchester's first micropub, The Magnet occupies a corner of the former Norfolk pub on North…
The Red Lion
Manningtree, ENG
The Red Lion stands on South Street in Manningtree, a Grade II listed building with sections dating…
The White Lion
Sible Hedingham, ENG
The last surviving pub in Sible Hedingham, once reputed to have been a poor house. Under landlords…
Rest
Dedham Hall
Dedham, ENG
Dedham Hall occupies a fifteenth-century manor house on Brook Street, run as a guest house and…
Puttocks Farm
Great Dunmow, ENG
Puttocks Farm is a working arable farm at Philpot End, on the edge of Great Dunmow, offering bed…
Star House
Maldon, ENG
Star House is a small, family-run bed and breakfast set in a listed Georgian townhouse on Wantz…
Thaxted Bed & Breakfast
Thaxted, ENG
Bed and breakfast in a converted stable block on a former farm outside Thaxted, with five suites…
The Cross Keys
Saffron Walden, ENG
This timber-framed building on Saffron Walden's High Street dates from around 1580, when its…
The Sun Inn
Dedham, ENG
Piers Baker has run this coaching inn on Dedham's High Street as an independent business since…
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