Colchester Town
Colchester is home to around 156,000 people.
Colchester has a thriving arts scene with 4 museums, many galleries and 4 theatres.
Colchester is planning a £17.8 million contemporary visual art gallery, firstsite to be opened in Autumn 2008.
Colchester has excellent shopping combining big name stores with quiet lanes of smaller specialist shops as well as Williams and Griffin, award-winning independent department store.
Colchester offers a balance between providing significant opportunities for new economic development whilst retaining its distinctive heritage and a special quality of life (a 1998 MORI poll showed that Colchester is one of the best places to live in the country regarding quality of life).
Colchester is ideal for connections to the Continent, London and the rest of the region.
Colchester boast the region's premier business centre - the Colchester Business Park, home to many internationally operating companies.
Thes home to the University of Essex, Britain's most international university. It hosts students from over 125 countries and is recognised as 'the most academically distinguished university in Britain for its size'.
Colchester is home to the Colchester Institute, part of Anglia Polytechnic University - nationally recognised for the excellent quality of its schools of music and design. Its new call centre campus is the first of its kind in Essex and will enhance the town's inward investment portfolio by supplying skills in this high-growth employment area.
The home to Colchester United championship Football Club
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