Love chocolate-box cottages, centuries-old architecture, and a peaceful setting away from the hustle and buzz of the big city (just over an hour's drive northeast of London)? Seeing it today, you'd never guess that the sweet little market town of Coggeshall, more than a thousand years old and built on an ancient Roman road, had by the 19th century become one of the most industrialized towns in Essex. Visitors can experience a friendly, intensely atmospheric slice of small-town England with its shops, pubs, inns, and... keep reading