Colchester Historic Tour and Lavenham Visit

Clients can either be picked up from their hotel or at the meeting point followed by a tour around historic Colchester Essex, then by air-conditioned vehicle to Lavenham in Suffolk where you can have lunch followed by a tour of the medieval village. Clients will then be driven back either to their hotel or the meeting point. The total time is roughly six hours in total.

Meeting Point

Colchester Visitor Information Centre

Castle Park, Hollytrees Museum, Colchester CO1 1UG, UK

Your guide will have an identifying badge and will meet you inside the visitor's information center which is at the rear of Hollytrees House in castle park next to the war memorial.

What to expect:

Duration: 6 hours

Colchester

Colchester

On this tour, we cover 2000 years of history from the native Iron Age Celts and the Roman occupation to modern-day Colchester.
Hear about the Saxon settlers of the dark ages, the Norman conquest, the building of their magnificent castle, the Flemish settlers of the Middle Ages, and the skills they brought to the area. See and hear about the beautiful Georgian architecture that is in abundance here in Colchester and how the various settlers through the ages recycled the Roman building materials of nearly 2000 years ago.

2 hours

Lavenham

Lavenham

After the tour of Colchester, we travel by car to the beautiful Suffolk town of Lavenham, acknowledged to be one of the finest examples of a medieval wool town.
Most of the timbered houses were built between 1450 and 1500, whole streets of timbered houses, not just the odd one here and there. That is what makes Lavenham unique.
During this tour, we stop for lunch at the lovely Lavenham Blue Vintage Tea Room.

3 hours