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Extract from the Colchester Travel Guides:
If you visit anywhere in Essex, it should be
COLCHESTER
, an agreeable town with a castle, a university and a large army base, fifty miles or so northeast of London. More than anything else, Colchester prides itself on being England's oldest town and there is documentary evidence of a settlement here as early as the fifth century BC. By the first century AD, the town was the region's capital and when the Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD they chose Colchester (Camulodunum) as their new capital, though it was soon eclipsed by London, becoming a retirement colony for legionaries instead. A millennium later, the conquering Normans built one...
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| New London County Street Atlas: Including Colchester, East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Stonington, Waterford, and Adjoining Communities |
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Landranger Map 0168: Colchester & the Blackwater (Landranger Maps) |
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