Community Assembly of Essex

Community Assembly of Essex

Serving, supporting and protecting our local communities

The Community Assembly of Essex encompasses the three cities of Southend, Colchester and Chelmsford, in order of population. For the purposes of government statistics, Essex is placed in the East of England region and Essex evolved from the Kingdom of the East Saxons. The name Essex originates in the Anglo-Saxon period of the Early Middle Ages and has its root in the Anglo-Saxon name Ēastseaxe ("East Saxons"), the eastern kingdom of the Saxons who had come from the continent and settled in Britain.

The deep estuaries on the east coast give Essex, by some measures, the longest coast of any county. These estuaries mean the county's North Sea coast is characterised by three major peninsulas.