ILLUSTRATED TALES OF ESSEX

Essex is a place where you learn to expect the unexpected. This book brings you stories of strange places with weird names, buildings that make no sense (until you know their history), bizarre legends, forgotten facts, lost villages, unknown islands, spirits and ghosts, witches and smugglers. Who knows, for example, the part played by Essex in the colonisation of America? Or that a town in Essex was once the capital of England? Or that the story of Saint George might have begun on Essex soil?