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Name
Image
Town/City
Region
Type
Summary
Aythorpe Roding Windmill Aythorpe Roding Uttlesford Mill Late 18th century windmill
Barleylands Farm Museum Billericay Basildon Agriculture Early farm machinery and tractors , tools, household implements, farm and animals
Bocking Windmill Bocking Braintree Mill Early 18th century windmill
Bourne Mill, Essex
Colchester Colchester Mill website , operated by the National Trust , Elizabethan water mill
Bragg's Mill
Ashdon Uttlesford Mill Mid 18th century windmill
Burnham-on-Crouch & District Museum
Burnham-on-Crouch Maldon Local website , local history, maritime, agricultural , industrial and social history
Castle Point Transport Museum Canvey Island Castle Point Transportation website , automobiles, buses, commercial, military and emergency vehicles, public road transport artifacts
Coalhouse Fort East Tilbury Thurrock Military 19th century Victorian coastal defence fort open on specified days, includes military museums and vehicles
Coggeshall Grange Barn
Coggeshall Colchester Agriculture website , operated by the National Trust , 14th century barn built for Coggeshall Abbey , collection of farm tools and equipment
Coggeshall Museum
Coggeshall Colchester Local website , local history, industry, agriculture, culture, lace
Colne Valley Railway
Sible Hedingham Braintree Railway Heritage railway, 7¼" miniature railway, exhibit centre with history and artefacts, rare breed farm, located at Castle Hedingham Station
Combined Military Services Museum
Maldon Maldon Military website , combat equipment and weaponry used by the British armed forces from medieval times to the present, lifestyles of the troops, uniforms, Secret Service , artifacts, vehicles
Duck End Mill Finchingfield Braintree Mill Mid 18th century windmill
East Anglian Railway Museum Chappel Colchester Railway Heritage railway and museum, includes equipment, station buildings, signal boxes, goods shed and restoration shed
East Essex Aviation Society and Museum Point Clear Tendring Military website
Essex Fire Museum
Grays Thurrock Firefighting website
Essex Police Museum
Chelmsford Chelmsford Law enforcement website , history of Essex Police from 1840 to present day, Victorian jail cell
Great Dunmow Museum
Great Dunmow Uttlesford Local website , local history, industry, culture
Halstead Heritage Museum
Halstead Braintree Local website , local history, culture, transport
Harwich Lifeboat Museum
Harwich Tendring Maritime website , operated by the Harwich Society, information , located in a former lifeboat station with exhibits about sea rescues
John Webb's Mill Thaxted Uttlesford Mill Early 19th century windmill
Maldon District Agricultural & Domestic Museum Maldon Maldon History information , vintage farm machinery and equipment, agriculture tools, household items
Mangapps Railway Museum Burnham-on-Crouch Maldon Railway Heritage railway and museum, includes rolling equipment, memorabilia, buildings
Mountnessing Windmill Mountnessing Brentwood Mill Early 19th century windmill
Museum of Power
Langford Maldon Technology Located in a water pumping station, features working examples of steam engines, machinery, equipment and tools, miniature railway
North Weald Airfield Museum
North Weald Bassett Epping Forest Military History of the former military airfield
Purfleet Heritage & Military Centre
Purfleet Thurrock Military website , located in a former Royal magazine for gunpowder , artifacts and memorabilia from all the armed forces
Rayleigh Windmill Rayleigh Rochford Mill Early 19th century windmill
Ridgewell Airfield Commemorative Museum
Ridgewell Braintree Military website , uniforms, artifacts, medals, memorabilia of the World War II airfield, the 381st Bomb Group and the No. 90 Squadron RAF
Royal Gunpowder Mills
Waltham Abbey Epping Forest Multiple Complex includes science of gunpowder exhibits, history of the site, exhibits of weapons and military artifacts, transportation, rockets, 1940s street scene, history of the Gunpowder Plot , narrow gauge railway, woodlands
Southend Pier Museum
Southend-on-Sea Southend-on-Sea Amusement website , history of the Southend Pier , working penny slot machines
Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill Stansted Mountfitchet Uttlesford Mill Late 18th century windmill
Stock Windmill Stock Chelmsford Mill Early 19th century windmill
Walton Hall Museum Stanford-le-Hope Thurrock History website , includes militaria, motoring, household bygones, dairy and nursery items, wheel-wrights, printing shop, blacksmith, old village bakery, toys, household items, road rollers