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Halstead
Town in the Braintree district of Essex, England

Halstead

Halstead is a town and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England.

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It lies on the River Colne, 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Braintree and 12 miles (19 km) north-west of Colchester. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 13,529. It is twinned with Haubourdin in the Nord department of France.

Get in

Getting to Halstead

Halstead is on the A131 in between Braintree and Sudbury and the A1124. Halstead no longer has a railway station, the nearest are in Braintree and Wakes Colne.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Halstead Heritage Museum

    Queen's Hall, Chipping Hill,.

  2. 02
    Empire Theatre

    Butler Road, CO9 1LL, mike@empire-theatre.co.uk.

  3. 03
    Halstead Library

    Bridge Street, CO9 1HU, halstead.library@essex.gov.uk.

  4. 04
    St Andrew's Church

    Parsonage Street, CO9 2LD, halsteadparish@gmail.com.

Do

Things to do

There is a river walk running through the town from east to west. Just outside the town is Broaks Wood, a popular area for walking owned by the Forestry Commission.

  1. 01
    Halstead Leisure Centre

    Colne Road, CO9 2HR,.

  2. 02
    Ramsey Road Skatepark

    Juniper Close, CO9 1YF (accessible by car from Holmes Road).

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Martins Road Fish Bar

    1 Martin's Road, CO9 1DJ,.

  2. 02
    Coffee Kavern

    26 Bridge Street, CO9 1HT,.

  3. 03
    La Mezze

    5 Market Hill, CO9 2AR,.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Oxyman (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.