Bocking Mill can be found right at the very end of Bradford Street heading away from the town centre. I love the look of the timber beams, again just like The Woolpack it has been repainted so the black really stands out against the black of the beams!
This site is great if you want to find out more about the houses along Bradford Street. No one is really sure how old St Michaels Church is, it is thought that parts of it may be as old as the 12th Century and has traces of Roman brickwork. It has a lot of personal history for me, my parents got married there and I was Christened at St Michaels when I was a baby. It is in the old Manor Street School building.
The school was built in and closed only as recently as , with it opening as a museum in It is home to an authentic Victorian class room, where school groups can take part in a role play, giving them the opportunity to experience what school was like back in the Victorian era. The museum celebrates the history of Braintree, with exhibits on the large industrial companies that called Braintree home, the effect of World War I and II on Braintree and Roman artefacts found during excavation digs around the town.
They also have temporary exhibits too which only last for a few months at a time. There are a couple of really weird street names in Braintree, well not so much street, they are more like tiny alleyways. I may be bias having lived along it for most of my life, but I love the Bocking Blackwater walk. It can be found on the north side of the Fairview Estate, with several access points starting at Bridport Way on the far East and actually part of the Kings Park estate and River Mead on the West side near Braintree College.
It has recently been re-tarmaced, which has made it suitable for pushchairs and bikes. It would have been a lifesaver if it was like that when I was at college, I used to have to cross the field towards River Mead with no footpath and some days it would be really muddy! I also remember when the River Mead area used to be a cow field! The route lays along a disused railway route which was in operation between — when the tracks were then removed.
It takes around 40 minutes to walk between Braintree and Rayne. One thing I miss about Braintree now I live in America, are the amount of public footpaths that cut through the farmland surrounding Braintree. You can walk through the fields from Broad Road not far from the Bocking Mill in Bradford Street to Bocking Windmill, during one walk I took, the fields were a lovely purple colour! Bocking Windmill has been in its current location since but was originally built in and was in operation until The windmill is sometimes open for tours, although it is no longer in working order, visitors can still see some of the original equipment.
Looking for places to visit around the Braintree area? I am from Braintree as well, and remember being in that house by Queens Meadow a couple of times as a young teenager.
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