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Our parks and places
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Alderford Water Mill
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Beeleigh Steam Mill
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Belhus Woods Country Park
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Cressing Temple Barns
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Cudmore Grove Country Park
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Danbury Country Park
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Essex Outdoors Bradwell
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Essex Outdoors Danbury
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Essex Outdoors Harlow
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Essex Outdoors Mersea
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Essex Record Office
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Finchingfield Post Mill
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Flitch Way
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Great Notley Country Park
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Hadleigh Country Park
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Jaywick Martello Tower
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Marsh Farm Country Park
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Mountnessing Post Mill
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Sky Ropes *Now closed until February half term 2024*
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Stock Tower Mill
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The Lock Climbing Wall
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Thorndon Country Park
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Weald Country Park
Explore our events and activities
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Sky Ropes Under the Stars
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Wildlife Detectives Day
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Pirates & Princesses Trail
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Starlight Cinema - Strangers on a Train (PG)
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Starlight Cinema - Alien (18)
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Starlight Cinema - The Man Who Fell To Earth (18)
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The Sounds of Silence
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Jaywick Creatives Exhibition
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Virtual Easter Egg Hunt
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Mapping the Coast Exhibition
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Let's Keep Covid in Check
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Essex Country Parks Summer Book Hunt
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Essex Record Office Presents...
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Stock Tower Mill - Heritage Open Day
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Woodland Play at Danbury Country Park
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The Daily Mile at Essex Country Parks
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Essex Outdoors School Holiday Activity Days
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Home education Forest School sessions at Danbury Country Park
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Essex Explorer Magazine
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Spring Talks at Jaywick Martello Tower 2022
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Creative Net at Jaywick Martello Tower: March
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International Women's Day Festival
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International Women's Day Festival
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East Coast Art at Jaywick Martello Tower
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Historical Video Game Making at Jaywick Martello Tower
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Jaywick Sands: A Snapshot of History
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Summer of Culture: Landscape Imaginary 'On The Island' exhibition
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ERO Presents: Romans, Saxons and Princely Burials
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Summer of Culture: Essex Multicultural Activities Network at Danbury Country Park
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Summer of Culture: BrazilArte at Hadleigh Country Park
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Summer of Culture: Efua Sey Cultural Academy at Weald Country Park
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Creative Net at Jaywick Martello Tower: Bring your own craft
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Harwich Festival of the Arts
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Essex Outdoors: School Holiday Activity Days - Danbury
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Essex Outdoors: Harlow High Adventure
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Essex Outdoors School Holiday Activity Days - Mersea
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Essex Outdoors School Holiday Activity Days - Harlow
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Simple Things Festival
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Summer of Culture: Global Village Finale at Hadleigh Country Park
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Creative Net at Jaywick Martello Tower: Lino Printing
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Dig4 Jaywick Open Day
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Jaywick Martello Tower: James McColl Smith exhibition
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Family-friendly boat trips in Essex: Essex Outdoors
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Landscape Imaginary: On The Island
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Landscape Imaginary: On the Island: Artist Talk
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Essex Explorer Bug and Butterfly Summer Trails
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Rhiannon Faith Company and Harlow Playhouse present Care House Project
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Jaywick Martello Tower Creative Net: Book Making
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Signals Digital Workshops for Kids – throughout August
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Now: the future community event
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Zinc Arts Presents: Summer Arts Activities
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Illustration workshop with artist Allan Drummond: Naze Tower Shelter
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Colchester Eco Festival
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ERO Presents: Big Boys Toys
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Jaywick Martello Tower: We Are Music
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Jaywick Martello Tower Coastal Open
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Naze Tower: Autumn Exhibition
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Alderford Water Mill - Heritage Open Day
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Mountnessing Post Mill - Heritage Open Day
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Finchingfield Post Mill - Heritage Open Day
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Naze Day with artist Emma Eagle
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ERO Presents: Essex Rocks - Geology beneath the landscape
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Barns in Essex and Elsewhere
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Drive Time
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The Colchester Film Festival - Guest Speaker event
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Mammoths, ancient humans and the Clacton beach connection
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ERO Presents: The Walkers of Hanningfield: Mapmakers of Tudor and Stuart Essex
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Seeing Art Differently
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Spooky Bat Hunt Trail - Great Notley Country Park
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Spooky Bat Hunt Trails
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Spooky Bat Hunt Trail at Weald Country Park
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Jaywick Martello Tower: From Babylon to St. Osyth - A witchcraft trail
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Gertrude Bell and Amelia Edwards
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Pram Town Revisited
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The Colchester Film Festival
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ERO Presents: The Archaeology of the Essex medieval landscape
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Hair & Adornment Festival
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ARKADE at Jaywick Martello Tower
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Jaywick Martello Tower: A story on the origins of the Witchcraft trials in Essex
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The Deepening's Project walk at Cudmore Grove
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ERO Presents: Dodgy scales and delivering the mails
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The Grand Theatre of Lemmings: Winter Window Wonderland
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Essex Symphony Orchestra: Amy Beach Gaelic Symphony
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ACE Music Therapy: FREE Christmas concert
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23 ways to Explore Essex in 2023 with family and friends
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Eerie Essex: On the Road (Clacton)
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Dance Network Association: Dancing With Dementia
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Dance Network Association: Babies in the Barn
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Manifesto For Essex: Climate Emergency Youth Summit
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Eerie Essex: On the Road (Colchester)
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Colchester Chinese New Year Gala 2023
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Applause Rural Touring: Sarah McQuaid
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Tides of Tendring
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70th Anniversary of 1953 Floods on Canvey Island
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Signals Media: Plug In Symposium
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The Deepenings Project Artist Workshop: Creative Writing for Soundscapes with Elinor Rowlands
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The Deepenings Project Artist Workshop: Storytelling with Bethan Briggs-Miller
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Eerie Essex on the Road: Share your Stories (Waltham Abbey)
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Applause Rural Touring: Suitcase Shakespeare
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Eerie Essex on the Road: Share Your Stories (Wivenhoe)
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Eerie Essex on the Road: Share your Stories (Basildon)
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Wyrd Flora: Introduction to Wildcrafting
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Jaywick Martello Tower Spring Talk: All About Willow
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Unfamiliars: The Deepenings Project Artist Workshop
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Wyrd Flora: Creating with Wild Colours, Paints, Pigments and Inks
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Essex Symphony Orchestra: Dorothy Howell, R. Strauss and Mahler
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Applause Rural Touring: Boring Someone in Some Dark Café
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Family Forest School at Danbury Country Park
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Applause Rural Touring: Suthering
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Wyrd Flora: Exploring the relationship between agricultural food crops and wild plants
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Jaywick Martello Tower Spring Talk: Beth Chatto
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The Deepenings Project: Artist Workshop
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Jaywick Martello Tower Spring Talk: Wild Experiences
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Eerie Essex on the Road: Share your Stories (Colchester)
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The Sugar Dandies: Spring Fling Tea Party
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Coastal Open 2023
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Jaywick Martello Tower Spring Talk 2023: Raising the curtain on the Aurora Borealis
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Woodland Animals Easter Egg Trail - Belhus Woods Country Park
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Woodland Animals Digital Easter Egg Trail - Great Notley Country Park
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Woodland Animals Easter Egg Trail - Weald Country Park
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ERO Presents: Playing to the whistle: The railways of Essex and East Anglia*
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Essex Outdoors Bradwell: Sailing Experience Days
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Essex Outdoors Bradwell: Family Powerboating Experience Days
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Carol Dawson Exhibition
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Carol Dawson Portraits
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Harlow High Adventure
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Wyrd Flora: Exploring the abundance of the Essex Estuary
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Jaywick Martello Tower: INSTAR ARKADE Arkspace Workshops
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INSTAR ARKADE Family Workshop
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Charlie Owen Essex Spring Shopping Fair
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INSTAR 'ARKADE': Shoreline Sketching
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ERO Presents: Hunting for Essex Witches through archives and archaeology
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Big Help Out: Behind the Scenes at Belhus Woods Country Park
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Sabotage Theatre: After the Rain: A Magical Puppet Show (Harlow)
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Sabotage Theatre: After the Rain: A Magical Puppet Show (Great Parndon)
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Temple at War
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National Mills Weekend 2023
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*SOLD OUT* Willow Hare Sculpture with Jo Hammond
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Gruffalo Day at Thorndon Country Park
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We are Music Jaywick
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Essex Photo Album Workshop (Harlow)
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Sabotage Theatre: After the Rain: A Magical Puppet Show (Basildon)
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Essex Photo Album Workshop (Basildon)
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Marsh Farm Country Park Wetland Trail
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Cudmore Grove Wetland Trail for all the Family
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Belhus Woods Wetland Trail for all the Family
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Danbury Wetland Trail for all the Family
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Carol Dawson Portraits
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Essex Photo Album Workshop (Canvey Island)
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Essex Photo Album Workshop (Colchester)
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Junior Coastal Open 2023
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Volunteer at Weald Country Park
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Coralina Cattrell Memorial Exhibition
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Elevator Arts and Kool Karers present ‘Hidden Voices’
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Chelmsford Radio Drama Festival: Listening Session (The Hive)
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Chelmsford Radio Drama Festival: Listening Session (Chelmsford Escape Rooms)
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Chelmsford Radio Drama Festival: Listening Session (Chelmsford Theatre Bar)
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Chelmsford Radio Drama Festival: Listening Session (Club Woodham)
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Chelmsford Radio Drama Festival: Listening Session (Chelmsford Library)
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Chelmsford Radio Drama Festival: Listening Session (Essex Record Office)
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Applause Rural Touring: Coggeshall Summer Festival
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Chelmsford Radio Drama Festival: Writers Workshop
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Sabotage Theatre: After the Rain: A Magical Puppet Show (Clacton)
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Applause Rural Touring: Megson
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Chelmsford Radio Drama Festival: The Last Showcase
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The Deepenings Project: Midsummer Ritual
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Maldon Festival
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The Deepenings Project: Music and Storytelling Trail
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The Deepenings Project: Art Exhibition
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Midsummer Madness, Essex Book Festival
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Sky Ropes and Sky Ropes Junior at Great Notley
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Helen Rollason Cancer Charity: A Vintage Day Out
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Essex Outdoors Harlow: High Ropes Hexagon Adventure
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Sabotage Theatre: After the Rain: A Magical Puppet Show (Harwich)
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Birdlore Children's Workshop at Cudmore Grove
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Applause Rural Touring: Buzz
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Literary Life: Author Readings
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Applause Rural Touring: Streets Alive
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Harlow Art Trust: Our Community, Our Environment
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Charlie Owen Food and Drink Fair
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Harlow Art Trust: Free Family Art Workshops
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43/103: The Remaining Martello Towers of England
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INSTAR: Interactive ARKADE exhibition
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Animal Mysteries Summer Trail at Danbury Country Park
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Animal Mysteries Summer Trail at Belhus Woods Country Park
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Animal Mysteries Summer Trail at Weald Country Park
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Animal Mysteries Summer Trail at Cudmore Grove Country Park
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Animal Mysteries Summer Trail at Great Notley Country Park
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Animal Mysteries Summer Trail at Hadleigh Country Park
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Animal Mysteries Summer Trail at Thorndon Country Park (South)
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Brightlingsea Regatta and Carnival
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Summer Workshops
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Essex Outdoors School Holiday Activity Days
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SOLD OUT: Essex Outdoors Bradwell: Royal Yacht Association Youth Sailing Week
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Jaywick Martello Tower: RNLI Summer Talk
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Read, Count and Explore at Hadleigh Country Park
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Family Wild Wednesdays at Danbury Country Park
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Read, Count and Explore at Thorndon Country Park
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Brightlingsea Free Music Festival
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Read, Count and Explore at Cudmore Grove Country Park
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Jaywick Martello Tower Summer Talk: East Coast Distillery
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Read, Count and Explore at Great Notley Country Park
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Summer Talk: The Beauty of the August sky
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Applause Rural Touring: Devious Dolphins
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Applause Rural Touring: Let's Go Clubbing
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Brightlingsea Food and Drink Festival
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Circus Raj returns to Hadleigh Country Park
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Heritage Open Days at the Essex Mills 2023
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Autumn Scavenger Hunt
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Essex Autumn Shopping Fair
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*Sold Out* Wellness Weekend Festival: Mersea Minds in Motion
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*Sold Out* Willow Workshop at Cressing Temple Barns
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ERO Presents: Rosemary Rutherford - stained glass, frescos and war artistry
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Jaywick Martello Tower: By Train to the Seaside
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Apple Day at Cressing Temple Barns
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The Deepenings Trail at Cudmore Grove
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Jaywick Martello Tower: By Train to Clacton-on-sea
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Monster Mysteries Trail at Great Notley Country Park
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Monster Mysteries Trail at Belhus Woods Country Park
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Monster Mysteries Trail at Danbury Country Park
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Monster Mysteries Trail at Cudmore Grove Country Park
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Monster Mysteries Trail at Thorndon Country Park
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Monster Mysteries Trail at Weald Country Park
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ERO Presents: The Battle of Assandun 1016
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Jaywick Martello Tower: The History of Surnames
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Explore the Abundance of the Essex Estuary with Wyrd Flora
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Local Food Economies and Urban Foraging with Wyrd Flora
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Essex Outdoors: Harlow School Holiday Activity Day
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Essex Outdoors Danbury: School Holiday Activity Day
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Essex Outdoors Mersea: School Holiday Activity Day
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*Sold Out* Spooky Forest School at Thorndon Country Park
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Essex Outdoors Bradwell: School Holiday Activity Day
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*Sold Out* Spooky Forest School at Danbury Country Park
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*Sold Out* Spooky Forest School at Great Notley Country Park
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Jaywick Martello Tower: St Osyth Church
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ERO Presents: Dick Turpin - Fact and Fiction
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Jaywick Martello Tower: The History of the Bicycle
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Jane Stewart: Essex Birds
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Essex Christmas Fair
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*Sold Out* One Day Willow Deer Sculpture workshop with Jo Hammond
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Thaxted Festival: Edgar Francis and Jâms Coleman
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Firstsite: Essex Girls
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Christmas Colouring
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Stick Man Sculpture Trail at Weald Country Park
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ERO Presents: A round-up of archaeology in Essex
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Great Notley Country Park Parkrun
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Cudmore Grove Country Park Parkrun
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Weald Country Park Parkrun
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Hadleigh Country Park Parkrun
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Marsh Farm Country Park Parkrun
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Great Notley Country Park Junior Parkrun
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Thaxted Festival: Ignas Maknickas (Great Dunmow)
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Thaxted Festival: Ignas Maknickas (Harlow)
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Animal Mysteries Festive Trail at Great Notley
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Animal Mysteries Festive Trail at Belhus Woods
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Animal Mysteries Festive Trail at Cudmore Grove
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Animal Mysteries Festive Trail at Danbury Country Park
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Animal Mysteries Festive Trail at Hadleigh
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Animal Mysteries Festive Trail at Weald Country Park
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Animal Mysteries Festive Trail at Thorndon Country Park
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Autism Friendly Christmas Animation
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Jaywick Martello Tower: Christmas Animation 7-years-old +
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Jaywick Martello Tower: The World Around Us
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Welcome to Essex: A sculptural installation by Lata Upadhyaya (Chelmsford Library)
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Welcome to Essex: A sculptural installation by Lata Upadhyaya (Harlow Library)
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