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Essex stretches from the Thames and the Epping Forest edge to the Suffolk border, with a long coastline, market towns and fast trains into London, so where you live shapes your dating life. Pick your area for a local guide to first dates, getting around and the villages nearby, from Chelmsford and Colchester to Southend, Basildon and the Sunshine Coast.
Choose your area
There is a guide for each of Essex's main towns and the areas around them.
Chelmsford and Mid Essex
Chelmsford
Chelmsford city centre, Moulsham, Springfield, Great Baddow, Writtle, Broomfield, Galleywood and Danbury
See the local guide →Maldon
Maldon town centre, Heybridge, Latchingdon, Althorne, Bradwell on Sea, Burnham on Crouch and Tollesbury
See the local guide →Braintree
Braintree town centre, Bocking, Great Notley, Rayne, Witham, Halstead, Coggeshall and Earls Colne
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Colchester and Tendring
Colchester
Colchester city centre, Lexden, Mile End, Stanway, Wivenhoe, West Bergholt, Old Heath and Dedham
See the local guide →Clacton on Sea
Clacton on Sea town centre, Great Clacton, Little Clacton, Holland on Sea, Jaywick, Saint Osyth and Brightlingsea
See the local guide →Frinton and Walton
Frinton and Walton town centre, Frinton on Sea, Walton on the Naze, Kirby Cross and Thorpe le Soken
See the local guide →Harwich
Harwich town centre, the old town, Dovercourt, Parkeston, Little Oakley, Mistley and Manningtree
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South Essex and the Thames
Southend on Sea
Southend on Sea city centre, Westcliff, Prittlewell, Southchurch, Thorpe Bay, Shoeburyness and Eastwood
See the local guide →Leigh on Sea
the old town, Chalkwell, Hadleigh, Belfairs, Eastwood and Leigh Broadway
See the local guide →Rayleigh and Rochford
Rayleigh town centre, Rochford, Hockley, Rawreth, Hullbridge and Great Wakering
See the local guide →Basildon
Basildon town centre, Pitsea, Laindon, Vange, Langdon Hills, Wickford and Nevendon
See the local guide →Billericay
Billericay town centre, Great Burstead, Ramsden Heath, Mountnessing, Stock and Downham
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West Essex
Brentwood
Brentwood town centre, Shenfield, Hutton, Warley, Ingatestone, Kelvedon Hatch and Blackmore
See the local guide →Epping and Loughton
Epping and Loughton town centre, Epping, Loughton, Theydon Bois, Buckhurst Hill, Chigwell and Waltham Abbey
See the local guide →Harlow
Harlow town centre, Old Harlow, Roydon, Nazeing, Matching Green and Sawbridgeworth
See the local guide →Saffron Walden
Saffron Walden town centre, Great Dunmow, Thaxted, Stansted Mountfitchet, Newport and Great Chesterford
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