Events Around Essex

3 Church Path, a quintessential cottage garden adjacent to historic church set behind a chocolate box thatched cottage. Terraced garden with a range of mixed shrubs, perennials, beautiful clematis and roses. Hidden vegetable garden and fruit trees.

An award-winning, medium-sized garden described as a ’Little Bit of Heaven. A blaze of colour with roses, clematis, pergola, rose arch, triple fountain with box hedging and deep herbaceous borders. See our ’Folly’, exuberant and cascading hanging baskets...find our Secret Door.

Tucked away in the gentle Essex countryside, the glorious garden at Elwy Lodge offers a welcome that is hard to beat.

A garden of around ¾ of an acre with a large pond, attracting much wildlife, as well as the owners resident ducks. Free ranging chickens roam in the shrubbery and budgerigar aviary.

SHOWING SHOW 16th, come along and join us , and of course our lovely animals will be waiting to welcome you. Book your GROOM a PONY session - learn how to groom a pony and receive your very own Certificate and Rosette to confirm you are officially an Ehpps pony groomer.

“..awesome ... U will not be disappointed!” The French circus is back with a new show! All-human traditional circus with a French flavour. The only circus with the thrills of the flying trapeze!

Zinc’s respite weekend provides a relaxed and friendly environment in which participants will develop their self-confidence and social skills. Activities are designed each day around the individuals’ needs to give a personalised programme. Explore new creative processes using visual arts, drama and music.

C15 house (not open) surrounded by 3 acres of formal gardens with mixed borders, topiary, pond, potager and greenhouse. Further 3-acre wild flower meadow with orchids and rare trees and further 3 acre orchard of old East Anglian apple varieties in two small fields across the lane.

Join us at Jaywick Martello Tower where we will be hosting not one but TWO exhibitions on World War One to celebrate the one hundred year anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919) which marked the official end of WW1.

Come along and listen to the music of the Essex Police Band. Bring a chair, picnic or just yourselves.

Unlimited rides on a steam train plus miniature ride-on railway and garden railway (weather permitting) and large model railway layout. Working signal box, exhibition centre, Travelling Post Office carriages, buffet carriage, shop and large free car park.

Lovingly cultivated over the past 30 years, its original one acre grass field is now an eclectic mix of gardeners delights, with the lower area left to allow natural growth. There are ponds, lovely mature trees, mixed shrubs and herbaceous borders.

Call for Artists! This year we are celebrating a momentous ten years since our first Coastal Open Exhibition. The Coastal Open exhibition is your chance to exhibit your craft and showcase your talent.

A suburban garden close to Nature Reserve, 30m x 14m space featuring an old cherry tree from the orchard of the famous Belhus Mansion.

Walton Maritime Museum is housed in the (newly Grade II listed) Old Lifeboat House. There are new exhibitions each year.

Delicious traditionally reared beef, lamb and pork. Fish and seafood, Vegetarian and vegan snacks meals and pastries, Handmade cakes, local honey, chutneys and preserves, peat free soil and gardening products, seasonal vegetables and free range eggs, Locally grown plants, handmade cards and jewellery.

introducing, for the first time ever, LIVE AT DOWN HALL, an exciting alfresco weekend of music that will see two world-class musicians perform in June 2019.

Nestled betwixt farmland in rural Essex, is our small secret garden, that has a wonderful charm and serenity to it. Set in 3½ acres, mostly paddocks, a little plot of loveliness wraps around our Victorian cottage, and roses smother the porch in June.

The Essex Craft guild hold their Late Summer Fair at this lovely event at Thames chase Country Park. For this event you will find the local crafts people in the 17th Century Broadfield Barns. There will be lots of crafts to see: wood turners, glass artists, potters, jewellery makers and much more.

Check out the artwork of local artists in shop windows all the way down Moulsham Street. Thanks to all the artists and shops involved for sharing the creativity of Chelmsford. Culminating in an exhibition and art sale at St.John’s Church on 29th and 30th June. Admission £1.

Cinematic, Orchestral Pop is a phrase not used frequently by bands to describe their sound, yet for The Ollie West Band this fits perfectly. Formed in 2014 by singer, songwriter and pianist Ollie West, this Manchester based ensemble is creating unique music that transcends genre and the generic ideas of the pop band.

MiniMusos Give your child a headstart with our Music Classes for Pre-Schoolers MiniMusos is a tutor-led interactive music group for pre-schoolers and their guardians Based at ATMusic Group’s professional studios just south of Chelmsford, MiniMusos is a perfect way to aid your child’s development