Chelmsford Attractions

This annual week-long festival is more diverse than its name suggests. The festival takes place in mid-May and includes daily events ranging from orchestral, choral and chamber concerts, recitals, film screenings, exhibitions, fringe events and children's activities. The repertoire is also quite varied, featuring pre-baroque works alongside newer classical pieces. The events take place in several venues, such as the Chelmsford Cathedral, the Maltings, the Centre Square, the railway station and other historical buildings.

The Chelmsford and Essex Museum has a wide variety of collections including: Essex Regiment displays, pottery, coins, costumes, pictures, a working beehive, rocks and fossils.

Five Lakes Golf & Country Club open in April 1995 in Maldon on 320 acres of countryside. It has two 18-hole courses, including the PGA European Tour Championship Lakes course, which has five lakes and nearly 10,000 trees. The other course is called the Links and has sweeping fairways and plush greens.

The Garden at Hyde Hall was created over a 30 year period, demonstrating that skilful planting and aftercare can nurture a challenging site. It is the Royal Horticultural Society's East Anglian Regional Garden and serves as a demonstration of the wide range of plantings suitable to conditions throughout the east of England.

A wide number of trees can be found in the arboretum of the fine garden at this 17th century house.