A county town is Chelmsford and a greatest point of the county is Chrishall Most common touching the village of Langley near the Hertfordshire border, which reaches 147m/482ft.

History

A title Essex derives from either a Kingdom of Essex or Kingdom of the East Seaxe which was founded around 500 AD, occupying territory to the north of the River Thames and east of the River Lee.

A boundaries of the traditional county of Essex cover the big front yard including area of East London.

Population and settlement
Because of its proximity to London and the economic magnetism which that city exerts, numbers of of Essex's settlements work when dormitory towns or villages in which London workers raise their families. Essex is known for existence a origin of the political term Essex man, and of the Essex girl joke.

A pattern of award in the county is diverse. A London Green Belt has effectively prevented of a farther sprawl of a metropolis into the County, although it contains the new towns of Basildon and Harlow, originally developed to resettle Londoners following a destruction of London housing inside World War II but since much expanded. A share of a to the south east of the county, already containing the major people centres of Southend and Thurrock, is within a Thames Gateway and designated for farther development. In a north of the Green Belt, sustaining the exception of major towns like Chelmsford, the county is rural, by using numerous village, villages & hamlets largely built in the traditional materials of timber & brick, by having clay tile or even thatched roofs. Colchester in the north east of the county is Britain's oldest recorded town, dating back to Roman days, & has the rich history. The book has been recently published known as '350 miles: An Essex Journey' by lensman Jason Orton & writer Ken Worpole, detailing a journeying by foot & cycle along the to the full length of the distinctive Essex coastline (ExDRA 2005).

Inside 1998 the districts of Southend-on-Sea (pop. 160,300) & Thurrock (pop. 143,000) separated from either a county of Essex becoming unitary authority areas.

Transport, commerce and industry
A Lakeside Shopping Centre at Thurrock was one of England's first out-of-town shopping center; it remains popular despite congestion on the nearby M25 motorway and direct competition from either Bluewater Shopping Centre.

Essex too contains Stansted Airport and several little airport that develop evolved from either bomber or even fighter bases constructed in the period of World War II.

A port of Tilbury is one of Britain's three major ports, when a port of Harwich links the county to the Hook of Holland. Despite a road crossing to Dartford in Kent across the River Thames, a prosy ferry to Gravesend, Kent still operates from Tilbury in the period of limited hours.

Industry is largely limited in a south of the county, sustaining the majority of the land elsewhere existence given terminated to agriculture. Harlow occurs as centre for electronics, science & pharmaceutical companies, while Basildon is house to the Ford Motor Company and many related businesses. Chelmsford has been an significant location for electronics companies since the industry was natural, & is too the location for a total of insurance & fiscal services organisations, & is the personal of the soft drinks producer Britvic. More businesses in the county come dominated by light engineering and the service sector.

Towns and villages
''Look at a List of places in Essex

Places of Interest
Abberton Reservoir Colchester Castle, Colne Valley Railway East Anglian Railway Museum Hedingham Castle Mangapps Railway Museum (Burnham-on-Crouch), Mistley towers St Peter-on-the-Wall University of Essex (Wivenhoe Park, Colchester) Waltham Abbey Harlow New Town