Postgraduate Prospectus
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www.essex.ac.uk/colchester | Colchester and surrounding area<br />
Stansted Airport, our gateway to<br />
continental Europe, is just an hours’ coach<br />
trip direct from our Colchester Campus.<br />
Our Colchester Campus is just two miles<br />
from the town centre, famous for being<br />
Britain’s oldest recorded town and former<br />
Roman capital. However Colchester has<br />
come a long way since Roman times,<br />
developing into an exciting and modern<br />
town with a thriving culture and numerous<br />
entertainment activities.<br />
Restaurants, coffee houses, bars, pubs<br />
and nightclubs, many of which are<br />
independent and unique to Colchester,<br />
mean the town offers something for<br />
everyone. If you like to shop, then there<br />
are department stores and individual<br />
boutiques, plus Lakeside shopping<br />
centre is just an hour away.<br />
Colchester’s flourishing arts scene has<br />
been enhanced by the developments<br />
at firstsite:newsite, a £16.5 million<br />
contemporary visual arts facility<br />
designed by Rafael Viñoly, which will<br />
have a permanent exhibition space for our<br />
collection of Latin American art. There is<br />
also the Mercury Theatre and Colchester<br />
Arts Centre, while the popular summer<br />
V Festival is less than 30 minutes away<br />
at Chelmsford’s Hylands Park.<br />
The surrounding countryside has been an<br />
inspiration to many famous artists and the<br />
East Anglian coastline is easily accessible,<br />
with nearby beaches at Frinton, Walton,<br />
Clacton and Brightlingsea. In addition, a<br />
popular destination for many is the village<br />
of Wivenhoe, less than a mile from our<br />
Colchester Campus. It has a lively quayside<br />
with pubs and restaurants to suit many<br />
tastes and pockets.<br />
Colchester is served by excellent transport<br />
links, with the A12 running into London and<br />
trains to central London taking only 50<br />
minutes, meaning you can make the most<br />
of the capital’s many attractions.<br />
Stansted Airport, our gateway to<br />
continental Europe, is just an hours’ coach<br />
trip direct from our Colchester Campus<br />
and the ferry port of Harwich is less than<br />
30 minutes by road. Colchester is also<br />
linked from the north via Ipswich and the<br />
A14 to Birmingham, and the M1/M6 to<br />
the Midlands and the north of England.<br />
<strong>Postgraduate</strong> <strong>Prospectus</strong> 2012 | 11
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