A day trip to – Colchester

Barely 40 minutes from central London lies the town that boasts more visible Roman ruins than London, a big castle, a ruined abbey, loads of old churches, and a pretty town centre.
Colchester is probably Britain’s oldest recorded town and at one time, capital for a large swathe of Southern and Eastern Britain. Occupied by the Romans, it became a major city for the occupying forces, destroyed by Boudica, rebuilt and fortified, and in the post-Norman era, gained Europe’s largest castle