Welcome to VisitColchester: bold, energetic and contrasting. The town dares you to embrace and enjoy it. In need of nurturing? Want to indulge in the area’s lashings of cultural wealth? Colchester is ready to stretch your imagination or simply let you chill. A great place with a glorious contemporary twist on its important historic past, Colchester offers you a surprisingly different stay. We hope you will visit Colchester, take some time to discover its personality and enjoy your time here.

Colchester is a town, and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester, in Essex, England. It has a population of 104,390. As the oldest recorded Roman town, Colchester claims to be the oldest town in Britain. It also claims to have the United Kingdom's oldest recorded market. Colchester is 56 miles (90 km) northeast of London. It is connected to the capital by the A12 road and the Great Eastern Main Line.