English Heritage sites near Aldham Parish
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
4 miles from Aldham Parish
The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester.
ST JOHN'S ABBEY GATE
5 miles from Aldham Parish
This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John.
COLCHESTER, ST BOTOLPH'S PRIORY
5 miles from Aldham Parish
The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded in c.1100 and an impressive example of early Norman architecture.
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
12 miles from Aldham Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
MISTLEY TOWERS
13 miles from Aldham Parish
Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776.
LANDGUARD FORT
23 miles from Aldham Parish
Landguard Fort is the site of the last opposed seaborne invasion of England in 1667 and the first land battle of the Royal Marines.
Churches in Aldham Parish
Aldham: St Margaret & St Catherine
Green Lane
Aldham
Colchester
(01206) 215772
http://www.aldham-church.co.uk
We are a lively, friendly evangelical church at the heart of the village of Aldham. We are the only church in the village and we wear our Anglicanism lightly. All are welcome to our worship and into our fellowship.
Developments in 2006 of the West Tower - a kitchen, a disabled toilet and a screened room above for Junior Church - have made the building more useful for both church and village use.
Junior Church is normally held at the Communion service on the fourth Sunday of the month.
We try to keep the wider world's needs in our minds and in our giving. In 2010 the church raised and gave about £4,255 to Christian and welfare causes outside the village. In 2015 it raised £2,457 for a church in Katmandu stricken by the earthquake, and £2,068 for the Alzheimer's Society. We suppport the local Food Bank and Beacon House, a Christian Charity that offers healthcare and wellbeing facilities to those who are homeless.
Pubs in Aldham Parish
Old Queens Head
Single bar pub with various drinking and eating areas. Heavily timbered with flagstone and wood floors. Real fires and pool table. Varied menu. garden and car park. Open from 10 each day for coffee.