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Chelmsford is the county town of Essex, England. It is 30 miles
(48.5 km) northeast of Charing Cross London. Chelmsford is in the centre of Essex,
and has been the county town since 1215. During the Peasants' Revolt, Chelmsford
was made capital of England.
It is also the seat of the Borough of Chelmsford, which includes the new (ca. 1970s)
settlement of South Woodham Ferrers on the banks of the River Crouch. The Borough
Council celebrated its centenary in 1988 (it had been incorporated as a municipal
borough in 1888 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1882), and the town had its
800th anniversary in 1999.
Chelmsford Cathedral is the second smallest cathedral in England (after Derby Cathedral).
It was built in the 15th and early 16th centuries, when it was the parish church
of the prosperous medieval town. The Diocese (established in 1914) covers all of
Essex and much of East London.
John Dee — noted Elizabethan philosopher and scientist, and also responsible
for the English translation of Euclid — was educated at the Chantry School (later
re-founded as the Grammar School) in the sixteenth century. Chelmsford is also home
to part of the Anglia Ruskin University and to the grammar schools of Chelmsford
County High School and King Edward VI Grammar School, founded in 1551 by charter
of King Edward VI on the site of an earlier educational foundation (although evidence
suggests it could have been around as early as 1292).
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