A historic county Essex is situated in the East of England. Chelmsford is its county town and apex point of the county is situated at Chrishall Common near the village Langley which is located near the border of Hertfordshire. It is 147 m or 482 ft in height.

Essex Police covers the two unitary authorities. The area that comes under the control of county council is a shire county or many local government districts that are spread all over the county except Southend on sea and Thurrock, which come under unitary authorities.

This celebrated county, with unitary counties shares its borders on all sides with rivers or sea. In the south with River Thames and Kent, south west with greater London, west with Hertfordshire across River Lee and Stort, in east it touches the North sea with its coastline and to the north with Suffolk mostly it is sketched by the river Stour.

Essex name comes from East Saxons as its kingdom was discovered by Aescwine in 527 AD who occupied this area, which is located on northern side of River Thames. Some parts of this area later became Hertfordshire and Middlesex whose territory was later restricted lands that lie to the east of River Lee.

Colchester is the recorded oldest town of Britain, known as Camulodunum at that time and it was fairly developed at that time too and had its own mint. Many changes took place after its formation in 1889, sometimes over bo
undaries, division and addition of cities until it became a part of East of England Government Office Region in 1994. It was believed to be a part of South East England, but was later confirmed to be a part of East of England. Thurrock and Southend on Sea got separated from it as unitary districts in 1998.

With a very diverse pattern of development it stopped the expansion of London. Two new cities, Harlow and Basildon were formed because of destruction of London during World War II. Since than it has expanded extensively, but Epping Forest proved a barrier on its expansion.

Due to its closeness to London and its attractive economy, most of the people traded and worked in London, raising their families in Essex, thus initiating the political term as Essex man and Essex girl jokes. On the northern side of Green Belt, except two big cities of Colchester and Chelmsford, most areas of the county are rural. This means that it contains many small towns, villages and hamlets, which are constructed with traditional materials like bricks, timber, clay tiles and with thatched roofs.

London Stansted Airport is serving people with flights touching destinations in North America and the Europe. Southend Airports renovation is going on, it used to be the busiest airport and still is in service with short flights that go to some channel islands.

Many small airports are also situated here, most of them were constructed during the two World Wars. These are mostly popular with pleasure air flights by local residents.