Aveley is a Village in the county of Essex.

Aveley postcode: RM15 4TJ

Retail in Aveley

There are great places to visit near Aveley including some great towns, cities, country parks, airports, castles, woodlands, historic buildings, villages, shopping centres, parks and nature reserves.

Towns to visit near Aveley include Colchester, Epping, Maldon, Southend-on-Sea, Saffron Walden, Braintree, and Basildon.

Chelmsford is one of Aveley's best, nearby cities to visit in Aveley.

Thorndon Country Park, and Hainault Forest Country Park are great places to visit near Aveley if you like country parks.

There are a number of airports near Aveley including London Stansted Airport, and London Southend Airport.

Colchester Castle is a great place to visit close to Aveley if you like castles.

Aveley has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Epping Forest, and Bedfords Park.

The area around Aveley boasts some of the best historic buildings including Audley End House and Gardens, and Chelmsford Cathedral.

Don't miss Hatfield Peverel's villages if visiting the area around Aveley.

Lakeside Shopping Centre is one of Aveley's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Aveley.

Aveley is near some unmissable parks like Bedfords Park,

Nature Reserves to visit near Aveley include Bedfords Park.

Aveley History

There are some historic monuments around Aveley:

• A major Roman villa, an Anglo-Saxon settlement and prehistoric remains 600m SSE of Darenth Court Farm
• Gatehouse and moat of South Ockenden Old Hall
• Icehouse at Clock House, Green Street Green
• Palaeolithic sites near Baker's Hole
• Howbury moated site
• Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Darenth Park
• Monastic grange at Friary Court
• Section of Roman road on Gidea Park golf course
• Springhead Roman site
• Aspdin's kiln
• Crop mark complex, Orsett
• Roman enclosure SE of Vagniacae
• Site of moated manor house E of St Michael's Church, Aveley
• Medieval woodland boundary in Darenth Wood
• Dovecote at High House, Purfleet
• Roman barrow 260m north east of South Ockendon Hall
• Former parish church and churchyard of St Nicholas
• Medieval grange barn, 228m south-east of Upminster Court
• Neolithic sites near Ebbsfleet
• Faesten Dic, a medieval frontier work in Joydens Wood
• Old Thorndon Hall and gardens
• Dene holes in Hangman's Wood
• Hall Place
• Dovecote at Hawley Manor
• Purfleet magazine
• A preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers, known as St John's Jerusalem, and an associated fishpond at Sutton-at-Hone