Essex yanki ne wanda yake gabas da Landan wanda ya ƙunshi yankin Gabashin Ingila. Tana iyaka da Greater London da Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire da Suffolk. Iyakokinta da Kent shine Kogin Thames kuma babban birninta shine Chelmsford.
Gaskiyar ita ce, Colchester ya tsaya a can, wanda shine tsohon garin Roman da ke ci gaba da kasancewa ɗayan abubuwan jan hankali ga masu yawon bude ido. Daidai da kyau ga arewa akwai makwabta biranen Manningtree da
Mistley wanda shine mafakar Janar Witchfinder a cikin karni na 17.
Yayinda ake birge Braintree sananne ne saboda yadi na ƙarni na 18 na masaku da aikin siliki, yayin da Coggeshall da Halstead ke ba da shagunan su na gargajiya.
Ya kamata a lura cewa Chelmsford (garin gundumar) an ba shi Yarjejeniyar Birni a cikin 1199, kuma yana da gidajan Katolika, manyan gidajen tarihi, manyan shagunan, gidajen tarihi, da gidajen kallo. Kuma don ƙarin yanayi da annashuwa, bi kogin zuwa Maldon, wani tsohon gari wanda ya kasance tashar jirgin ruwa da cibiyar jigilar jiragen ruwa.
Hakanan ya cancanci ziyarar shine Burnham-on-Crouch, ɗayan manyan cibiyoyin jirgin ruwa ban da tashar jiragen ruwa na Kent da Sussex, da Harwich tare da tarihin maritime, kamar Redoubt Fort.
Kuma zaku iya kawo karshen rangadinku a Saffron Walden, wani tsohon birni mai gine-gine na daɗaɗaɗɗen lawn da ba a saba gani ba da kuma babbar cocin Ikklesiya a Essex.