What is recorded here
St. Annes Castle, Great Leighs, Essex is a castle, fort or tower in Chelmsford, England. Perhaps it stood as a quiet watchtower above the fields, maybe it guarded a lost road or marked a boundary between neighbours. Imagine its stones catching rain and sunlight while people passed below, unaware of the shape they ringed.
A named place photographed at this map point in Chelmsford.
St. Annes Castle, Great Leighs, Essex, was built in the 16th century as a moated manor house, likely by a local gentry family. It is remembered for its historical association with the Leighs family and as an example of early Elizabethan domestic architecture in Essex.
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Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0