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  1. BE2 flying
    Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome is a unique place with a unique history. It is the largest known surviving group of RFC buildings on a WWI aerodrome which was not adapted for further military use later in its history.
    1. Napoleonic period cannon at CMSM
      An award winning collection of British military artefacts from the English Civil War to today. Collections focus on the Special Forces, espionage, uniforms, medals, swords, and the Donnington Firearms Collection of over 700 guns.
      1. The RAF Bradwell Bay war memorial.
        RAF Bradwell Bay is a former Royal Air Force station located on the Dengie Peninsular, approximately 9.5 miles east of Maldon. It is the site of a war memorial to the 121 members of the Allied Air Forces who "in answer to the call of duty left this airfield to fly into the blue forever". The memorial is in the shape of a crashed Mosquito aircraft. The central area of the airfield was first laid prior to the Second World Ware as a grass landing strip for the nearby Dengie firing ranges off the coast before being rebuilt in 1940 as an large RAF station with concrete runways, hangars and other buildings.

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      1. Address

        Trusses Road, Bradwell-on-Sea, CM0 7QS

        Bradwell-on-Sea

        RAF Bradwell Bay is a former Royal Air Force station located on the Dengie Peninsular, approximately 9.5 miles east of Maldon. It is the site of a war memorial to the 121 members of the Allied Air Forces who "in answer to the call of duty left this…

      2. Address

        The Square, Tillingham, Essex, CM07SU

        Telephone

        01621 779620

        Tillingham

        This Grade II listed parish church has a beautiful setting in the village square in Tillingham, surrounded by white weatherboarded cottages. It is also home to the village's war memorials.

      3. Address

        Junction of Beacon Hill and Kelvedon Road, Wickham Bishops, CM8 3HW

        Wickham Bishops

        Great Braxted, Little Braxted and Wickham Bishops war memorial is a Grade II listed stone memorial with a tall, hexagonal pillar topped with an orb and cross, standing on a three-step hexagonal plinth. The memorial was given to the area by Mr and…

      4. Address

        Church Street, Maldon, Essex, CM9 5HP

        Telephone

        01621 857191

        Maldon

        St. Mary's Church is known locally as the Fisherman's Church as its tower guides sailors and their craft into the Hythe Quay. The existing building dates from 1130, but archaeological evidence suggests that it used to be the site of a Saxon church.

      5. Address

        Promenade Park, Park Drive, Maldon, CM9 5JQ

        Maldon

        The World War One Avenue of Remembrance at Promenade Park begins by the coach park and loops around the field to the main vehicle entrance from Park Drive. The Avenue originally consisted of 180 numbered trees and was dedicated on 27 November 1935…

      6. Address

        Church Street, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, CM9 8TS

        Tolleshunt D'Arcy

        St Nicholas Church is Grade I listed. Its churchyard extension, a little way up the road, has three Commonwealth War Graves.

      7. Address

        All Saints Church, Church Hill, Purleigh, CM3 6QJ

        Purleigh

        The war memorial at Purleigh stands in the graveyard extension opposite the Grade I Listed All Saints Church and takes the form of a 10ft granite obelisk on a three-stepped base, built by Wray & Fuller of Chelmsford. It commemorates the lives of 25…

      8. Address

        Basin Road, Heybridge Basin, CM9 4RJ

        Telephone

        07950 636 660

        Heybridge Basin

        The little church building behind the bus shelter in Heybridge Basin began life during World War 1, as an Armstrong Hut, used as the Sergeants’ Mess hut on Goldhanger Airfield. This airfield was first used as a night landing ground by the Royal…

      9. Address

        St Leonard's Church, Station Rd, Southminster, Essex, CM10 7EW

        Telephone

        01621 772300

        Southminster

        Southminster War Memorial is a 2.4m obelisk in the grounds of St Leonard's Church, bearing the names of 75 casualties of war.

      10. Address

        High Street, Burnham, CM0 8AG

        Burnham

        Burnham’s war memorial remembers 98 local soldiers who died in the First World War, and 27 soldiers and 10 civilians who died in the Second World War. The pale stone obelisk, which looks out over the estuary, was designed by the renowned architect R…