Discover 11 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Maldon (United Kingdom). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Moot Hall, Beeleigh Abbey, and Combined Military Services Museum. Also, be sure to include Maldon Marine Lake in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Maldon (England).
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Moot Hall
The Moot Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Maldon, Essex, England. The building, which was the headquarters of Maldon Borough Council, is a Grade I listed building.[1]
Address: Maldon High Street, Maldon
Beeleigh Abbey
Monastery in England. Beeleigh Abbey near Maldon in Essex, England, was a monastery constructed in 1180 for the Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, as known as the Norbertines or Premonstratensians. The order linked the change of the separate life of monks in the 12th century with the retrospective life of the friar, who was considerably more active.[2]
Combined Military Services Museum
Museum in Maldon, England. The Combined Military Services Museum in Maldon, Essex, was opened on 5 July 2004. It was set up by Richard Wooldridge to house a personal collection he had created over many years. A charity was established in 1996 to facilitate the funding of a museum building. A suitable property was found in 2001, a former bonded warehouse in Maldon. This underwent considerable modification to suit its new purpose. In the period of setting up the museum, the initial collection was expanded by donations and acquisitions. In 2007, a National Lottery grant was given to extend the museum to house the Donnington Historic Weapons Collection. These works were completed in November 2008.
Amongst the items in the museum is a Cockle Mark II canoe from the "cockleshell heroes" raid, Operation Frankton, as well as a large collection of Special Operations Executive (SOE) equipment and the Donnington Historic Weapons Collection. The Donnington collection also holds a replica of the Victoria Cross metal, a piece of bronze from a captured cannon from which all Victoria Crosses have been made. The original metal is still closely guarded within MoD Donnington. Amongst the rarest items in the museum are the Riggal Papers. These are the training records of Captain P M Riggal, an instructor in the SOE, found 50 years after the end of the Second World War.
On 7 September 2016, nearly 100 artefacts from the museum's SOE and Mason collections were shipped to the Musée de l'Armée in Paris for an exhibition called "Guerres Secretes" ("Secret Wars"), to run from 12 October 2016 and to 29 January 2017.[3]
Address: Station Rd, CM9 4LQ Maldon
Maldon Marine Lake
Park in Maldon, England. Promenade Park is the premier urban park in Maldon, Essex, England.[4]
All Saints Church
Architecture, Church
Address: High Street, CM9 5PJ Maldon
Maeldune Centre
History museum in Maldon, England. The Maeldune Heritage Centre is in Maldon, Essex in England. It commemorates the Battle of Maldon. Its address is Maeldune Heritge Centre, Plume Building, Market Hill, Maldon, Essex, England; phone: 01621-851628. In it are the famous Maldon Millennium Embroidery, art displays, and Maldon Society historical displays. Its building was formerly St.Peter's Church, which had become redundant, as there are other churches in Maldon.[5]
Address: 2 Market Hill, CM9 4PZ Maldon
Maldon Wick
Nature reserve. Maldon Wick is a 6.1 hectare nature reserve in Maldon in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.
This is a 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) linear site along the route of the former railway line between Maldon and Woodham Ferrers, and it is mainly on embankment. There are many breeding birds, and 28 species of butterflies and 17 of dragonfly have been recorded. Flowering plants include moschatels and sweet violets.
There is access from Limebrook Way.[6]
Plume
Architecture, Library
Address: High Street, Maldon
Lofts Farm Pit
Lofts Farm Pit is a 4.5 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Heybridge, a suburb of Maldon in Essex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
Many fossils have been found at the former gravel pit dating to the last Ice Age, 110,000 to 12,000 years ago. Finds included reindeer, woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. They date to a period when what is now the North Sea was Doggerland, and the River Blackwater was a tributary of the Thames/Medway river.
The site has been converted into a lake and there is no public access.[7]
Cooks Yard
Boat builders in England. Cooks Yard is a boat-building business established by Walter Cook in 1894 on the bank of the River Blackwater at Maldon, Essex, England. Originally known as Walter Cook and Son and specialising in the building of Thames sailing barges, it operated until the 1980s - at which time, it was the last remaining barge yard in Britain.
In 1999, Topsail Charters took on the lease of the yard and refurbished it. They restored boat building and barge repair to the site and maintain the last set of original barge repair blocks on the east coast of England.[8]
Maldon Cutting
Maldon Cutting is a 0.1 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Maldon in Essex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
The site is a former railway cutting which is the type locality for the Maldon Till, which dates to the Pleistocene ice age. It was previously thought to represent a separate advance of the ice sheet, but in the light of later work it was concluded that it is an outlier of the till which covers much of central and northern Essex. Finds include a flint hand axe.
The overgrown site is on private land with no public access.[9]