Dutch Quarter
ColchesterNarrow lanes of pastel-painted weavers' houses where Flemish refugees made cloth in the 1500s.
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Nunn's Road, Colchester, CO1 1EG
Quick facts
Flemish Protestant refugees began settling in Colchester in 1565 and made a cloth known as bay.
Many of the houses have the wide horizontal windows that gave weavers their light, and more than 60 still stand.
The houses were saved from demolition in the early 1950s.
Address
Nunn's Road, Colchester, CO1 1EG
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