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Book : Maldon: South
Woodham Ferrers, Burnham on Crouch (Street Plans).
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Danbury village is surrounded by attractive open countryside
and woodland, much of it owned and protected by the National
Trust and Essex Wildlife Trust. St John's Parish Church is a
Grade 1 Listed Building with much of interest for the visitor,
with parts dating from around 1290. www.danbury-essex.gov.uk.
About 3 miles west of Maldon.
Royal Horticultural Society
- RHS Garden Wisley (RHS) Garden Hyde Hall, Hyde Hall, Rettendon,
Chelmsford, Essex CM3 8ET. Tel: 01245 400256. RHS Garden Hyde
Hall was donated to the Society in 1993. Nearly 40 years of work
has brought it from a windswept hill with just six mature trees,
to the present day Garden of 24 acres. www.rhs.org.uk. About
7 miles south west of Maldon.
Museum of Power, Steam Pumping Station, Hatfield Road, Langford,
Maldon, Essex CM9 6QA. Tel: 01621 843183. Exhibits include a
'Sectioned' Ford Fiesta, Joseph Evans Reliable Steam Pump No.
19473, built in 1916, and a 'Coles' Crane. Langford and Beeleigh
Railway - The main line that now encircles the museum building
is vertually complete. www.museumofpower.org.uk. About 1 mile
north of Maldon.
Mangapps Farm Railway
Museum, Southminster Road, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, CM0 8QQ.
Tel: 01621 784898. Mangapps Railway Museum is a privately owned
working museum established on a farm at Burnham on Crouch, Essex.
It features a ¾ mile standard gauge passenger carrying
line, with restored stations, signal boxes and ancillary equipment.
The Museum has one of the largest and most comprehensive collections
of railway items in Britain. www.mangapps.co.uk. About 6 miles
south east of Maldon.
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