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Braiswick, Colchester — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Braiswick, also called New Braiswick Park, is a village in Essex 2 km northwest of Colchester, built out between 2007 and 2011.
About Braiswick
Where to stay in Braiswick
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Colchester is where the rooms are. Braiswick was built out as housing between 2007 and 2011, so its streets carry no hotel frontage, and a visitor who wants a bed within reach of Lexden Mount and The Triple Dyke books in Colchester instead. The dykes lie on the town's northwestern approach.
Anyone here for the Royal Grammar School, Colchester or for St Mary's Hospital, Colchester finds the same answer, since Braiswick supplies addresses rather than accommodation.
About Braiswick
What are the main landmarks in Braiswick?
Earthworks dominate the register. Lexden Mount, Moat Farm Dyke, Lexden Dyke at Spring Meadow, Lexden Dyke Middle and The Triple Dyke all belong to the Iron Age oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum, which puts most of Braiswick's listed heritage below ground rather than above it. A site of pre-Roman settlement is registered too.
Above ground the list runs to Christ Church, Colchester, Colchester New Church, the Church of St Leonard, Glebe House, Hill House, Sheepen Farm and the Royal Grammar School, Colchester with its playing field.
What is the history of Braiswick?
Camulodunum came long before the park. The Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum reached across this ground, and the Lexden Dyke, Moat Farm Dyke and The Triple Dyke survive as its boundary earthworks on the Braiswick side of Colchester. Building came much later, between 2007 and 2011, when New Braiswick Park was laid out and finished.
Old ground, new houses.
Where is Braiswick?
Braiswick lies 2 km northwest of Colchester in Essex, England, on ground crossed by the Lexden Dyke earthworks.
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Updated September 2026