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15 Best Things to Do in Colchester (CT)

The quiet, rural town of Colchester was incorporated at the turn of the 18th century and grew up around a picturesque town green. Three centuries later it’s reassuring that most of the life in Colchester Center coalesces at this space, which is protected as a historic district. In amongst the 18th and 19th-century houses and …

The Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote about the town of Colchester in the 1st Century AD. Camulodunum, as it was then known, was once the capital of Roman Britain and is the UK’s oldest town. The place to dip into Camulodunum’s history is an extraordinary monument in its own right: Colchester Castle is a …