Discover 5 New Heritage Trails at Cressing Temple Barns

Step into a medieval world of brave knights, dangerous journeys and powerful beliefs.

Meet pilgrims, kings and the legendary Knights Templar as you explore Cressing Temple’s remarkable past.

From holy missions to royal gifts and dramatic downfall, this trail reveals the thrilling story behind one of England’s greatest estates

Discover the real stories behind the Peasants’ Revolt.

Walk with Amicius the Skinner through hardship, rebellion and hope, as Essex villagers rise against unfair laws and crushing taxes.

Explore Cressing Temple’s dramatic role in one of England’s most explosive uprisings.

It’s 1542, three years since 12-year-old Edward VI inherited Henry VIII’s broken kingdom.

There’s religious upheaval, poor harvests, rampant inflation and peasant revolts against landowners.

The Tale of Two Thomases shows the gulf in expectations between the nobility and the peasants who worked the Cressing Temple estate.

It’s the late 1820s and fire, fear and change grip the Essex countryside.

Walk beside farm labourer Luke and his boss, tenant farmer Mr. Grimwood, as riots erupt, new machines arrive and lives are reshaped forever.

Discover courage, hardship and hope in this gripping self-guided journey into England’s rural past.

As the Second World War rages, Betty leaves London life for the fields of Cressing.

Discover how the young land girl – who ‘didn’t know one end of a cow from the other’ – learns new skills, overcomes challenges and finds new friends.

Betty’s story reveals the extraordinary role played by ordinary women in Britian’s wartime countryside.