HalsteadEssex

The Courtauld silk mill (now luxury flats but one of Victorian England's most important industrial buildings), the Colne Valley, the Hedingham Castle proximity, and an Essex market town on the beautiful Colne Valley

Halstead's Courtauld silk mill dominated the town for over a century — the same Courtauld family that later became the great art patrons. The town sits in the beautiful Colne Valley beneath Hedingham Castle, one of England's finest Norman keeps.

Hedingham Castle is extraordinary — a Norman keep in near-perfect condition. The Colne Valley walk through to Colchester. The weekly market for local Essex produce.