English Heritage sites near Raydon Parish
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
5 miles from Raydon Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
MISTLEY TOWERS
6 miles from Raydon Parish
Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776.
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
9 miles from Raydon Parish
The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester.
COLCHESTER, ST BOTOLPH'S PRIORY
9 miles from Raydon Parish
The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded in c.1100 and an impressive example of early Norman architecture.
ST JOHN'S ABBEY GATE
9 miles from Raydon Parish
This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John.
LANDGUARD FORT
15 miles from Raydon Parish
Landguard Fort is the site of the last opposed seaborne invasion of England in 1667 and the first land battle of the Royal Marines.
Churches in Raydon Parish
Pubs in Raydon Parish
Brett Vale Golf Club
Noakes Road, Raydon, IP7 5LR
(01473) 310718
brettvalegolf.co.uk/