Places to visit in Essex: competition

Colchester Castle with the Grandkids. They love Castles & this one looks stunning.

We love Mersea Island. It's a great place to take the kids and the dogs. They've got excellent fish and chips as well. That's where we'd head to first.

I live quite close to Colchester Castle but feel that I would prefer to visit Audley End House as it looks very historic and interesting and I feel that it would be so useful to tour round somewhere so vast with extravagance and enjoy the pleasure of something that is quite close but never think of a visit.

Mersea Island would be my first choice too. I've never been there but, from the description, all four grandchildren would be in their element. Sun, sea and sand, what's not to love!
That + fish and chips = Perfection

I would take my grandchildren to Marsh Farm. I've bee before and it is a real fun day out for the children to see all the animals.

I would go to Audley End House as i have read a lot about it but never actually visited. I do love visiting houses and gardens especially if they have nice tea and cake for a pit stop.

I'm an Essex gal so it would be wonderful to win this guide book. It has to be Dedham Vale and into Constable country to see exactly where this great artist painted. It would be a great thrill, apart from the fact that it's a very pretty area to visit.

I used to live in Billericay which was one of the friendliest places I have ever lived. Southend would be the place to visit for fun and games on the sand and fish and chips when the sun goes down.

I would love to visit Audley End house, particularly the Victorian service wing and see the servants going about their business as they would have done 150years ago.

I'd love to go to The Roman Circus Museum. I didn't even know it existed. How exciting!

Mountfitchet Castle sounds good as hubby and I like to visit castles.

Audley End House. When a teenager, I used to stay with friends who lived in a house on a farm in Saffron Walden and we used to roller skate on a nearby airport. Charming little village it was then - haven't been back recently to see if it has changed.

The mysterious Essex coast is surely a winner. We loved our time some years ago, pottering around the inlets and touring beautiful villages, admiring the clapboard cottages.

The children can run riot and almost become little feral creatures as all forms of computers and iPads are forgotten in the sheer joy of playing on the beaches and sea.

We have already visited many of these, but I have always fancied a visit to The Secret Nuclear Bunker, so this would be my first choice.

Dedham Vale sounds lovely, great for walking the dog, followed by a pub lunch and a slow boat down the river Stour, bliss !

Audley end house and gardens. I love gardens and I'm sure the train ride will be a big hit with the little ones

Colchester castle just can't be beaten for a day out.

Audley End House and gardens as there is something for everybody and I know the children will totally love the horses and the little train ride.

Definitely Marsh Farm with my grandchild Lucy. Her parents are both vets and she seems to have been born with a love of animals.

I would visit Audley End House, I have not been since I was a child, but recently saw a program about it which made me realise I would like to revisit it

I would love to visit Colchester Castle. Castles are a family must see and this looks great for a visit with the grandchildren. Our grandson is actually studying castles this term.

Audley End House is a favourite of mine!

Wow, I've never even heard of Mountfitchet Castle, and I'm a mediaeval addict!

We love Marsh Farm, the kiddies like the open running about spaces and the animals they can get up close to and interact with, super day out.