Welcome to Visit Colchester
Colchester, in Essex is Britain's oldest recorded town. But it's not just Colchester's heritage and history that attracts more than 4.5m visitors every year. Colchester today is a thriving, modern town with many great visitor attractions, including the children's favourite Colchester zoo, making the place just right for a day trip, short-break or family holiday.
So whether you're interested in culture, things to do with the kids, exploring nearby countryside for a 'breath of freash air' (including the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Mersea Island, where you can enjoy local oysters), shopping in quiet streets lined with small specialist shops or savouring cosmopolitan cuisine for all tastes and pockets, discovering interesting public art in unexpected places and historical treasures in award-winning museums around the town then why not put Colchester on your 'must visit' list?
We look forward to welcoming you to Colchester: more than Britain's oldest recorded town.