About Maldon
Maldon is one of the oldest towns in Essex, standing on a hill above the Blackwater Estuary roughly 10 miles east of Chelmsford, with a population of around 15,000 in the parish and 23,000 in the wider built-up area that includes Heybridge. It is the seat of Maldon District and a town with a very long memory: the Battle of Maldon was fought against Viking raiders by the causeway to Northey Island in 991, and a statue of Byrhtnoth, the Saxon earl who fell there, looks out over the water from the end of Promenade Park. Maldon Sea Salt has been harvested from the estuary since 1882, and the traditional Thames sailing barges moored at Hythe Quay are still the town's signature view.
The High Street follows the ridge above the river, past the 15th-century Moot Hall, and All Saints' Church on it has the only triangular church tower in England. Much of that street and the old town around it is a conservation area, thick with timber-framed, Georgian and weatherboarded buildings, with Victorian terraces on the slopes below and interwar and post-war homes along the approach roads. The railway closed in the 1960s, so commuters drive to Hatfield Peverel or Witham for the main line, and most newer building has gone to the edges: estates at Heybridge, where the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation meets the estuary at Heybridge Basin, and recent development on the town's southern and western fringes. Promenade Park and the Blackwater Leisure Centre sit down by the waterfront.
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