Simon Heffer

What do we think of when we think of Essex?

Its industrial new towns have nothing in common with its picturesque villages and lonely estuaries – but a refusal to conform still unites this deeply schizophrenic county

Fun and games on Clacton beach, 1932. [Getty Images]

  • The Invention of Essex: The Making of an English County

    Tim Burrows

    Profile, pp. 336, £16

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