Secret Essex Episodes Available now
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Saving Dovercourt’s Leading Lights
Dovercourt’s lighthouses are an iconic part of Essex’s coastline – but for how long?
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Inside the Braintree Cage
How a small brick building was the answer to drunken excess in 19th century Braintree.
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Ronald Blythe - A Word from Wormingford
The author's home in the north Essex village of Wormingford has an intriguing past.
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The Essex scientist who got man to the moon
The vital role Billericay born scientist Tom Bacon played in the Apollo 11 mission.
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Secrets of the HMS London shipwreck
One of the UK's most important shipwrecks lay undiscovered for 360 years near Southend.
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The Dunmow Flitch Trials
The Essex town with a 900 -year-old test of married couples and an unlikely prize.
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A concise history of Beeleigh Abbey
Discovering the fascinating, diverse and tragic history of Beeleigh Abbey near Maldon.
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The unusual uses of Hedingham Castle
The Chatelaine of Hedingham Castle reveals some interesting uses of the Essex landmark.
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Abberton's Roman discovery
The fascinating archaeological treasures unearthed close to Abberton Reservoir.
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Saffron Walden's crucial Cromwell meeting
How a meeting in Saffron Walden led to the birth of English democracy.