If you are looking for professional jewellers in or around Essex,
F. Hinds could be your choice!
You can visit any one of the following four F. Hinds shops in Essex:
Our staff are looking forward to seeing you at your next visit to one of our stores.
Something about Essex
Essex takes its name from the kingdom of the East Saxons (Old English 'Seaxe') who settled in the area in the fifth centrury.
On the southern shore of the Blackwater, at Bradwell, is one of the oldest churches in Britain, St Peter-on-the-Wall, probably built by the Northumbrian missionary, St Cedd, around 645.
Inland from Manningtree, on the border with Suffolk flows the Stour through a landscape made famous by the great landscape painter John Constable.
Famous for
After his death at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, King Harold was buried at Waltham Abbey. The current building is the magnificent nave of a Norman church built around 1120; the great abbey built by Henry II as part of his penance for the murder of Thomas Becket was demolished after 1540.
Epping Forest was originally a royal forest, where kings hunted deer and other animals while commoners had certain rights to gather wood. In 1878, its administration was taken over by the City of London Corporation and , when Queen Victoria visited in 1882, she said 'it gives me the greatest satisfaction to dedicate this beautiful forest to the use and enjoyment of my people for all time'.
The nursery rhyme 'Old King Cole' is based on a story about the naming of Colchester, apparently after the mythical 'King Coel', whose daughter, so the story goes, was Helena, the mother of the first Christian Roman Emperor Constantine.
Famous people
William Gilbert, physician and scientist, author of De Magnete, born Colchester, 1544.
John Ray, naturalist, born Black Notley, near Braintree, 1627.
John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, physicist and Nobel Prize winner, born Langford Grove, Maldon, 1842.
John Whitaker (Jack) Straw, politician, born Buckhurst Hill, 1946.
Jamie Oliver, chef and cookery writer, born Clavering, 1975.