Colchester - a historic and interesting city
Trip Start
Jun 08, 2004
1
2
27
Trip End
Jun 30, 2004
Colchester,
England,
United Kingdom
Thursday, June 10, 2004
Red Lion Hotel
which we recommend and we then proceeded to tour the town. We stopped at a nice place The What Bar for lunch.
Lunch at The What Bar
It had an outside area where we enjoyed our meal and a couple of pints of ale. Colchester was the first of the original Roman settlements in Britain and was then known as Camulodunum which honors a Celtic God. The Normans invaded the area in 1066. Construction on this Norman Castle was started around 1074 and was fortified around 1085 to protect to from Danes.
Norman Castle, Colchester
Norman Castle
The castle was built on Roman ruins of a temple built by the emperor Claudius during the Roman Occupation.
Roman ruins at Castle
The castle now houses a museum of locally found historical items.
Roman tombstone in museum
. There is a large park-like area that one can walk around and admire the gardens.
Grandpa Dickson Rose in Castle Garden
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Colchester and we wish we had more time to visit other historical attractions but we had to move on in order to meet our ship in Harwich.
