Writtle
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| County: | Essex |
| Region: | East of England |
| Nation: | England |
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| Ceremonial county: | Essex |
| Traditional county: | Essex |
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| Postcode: | CM1 |
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| European Parliament: | East of England |
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The village of Writtle lies in Essex, England, just to the west of Chelmsford.
Named in the Domesday Book, the village also boasts the site of a mediæval royal hunting lodge. It has a traditional village green, complete with duck pond, and a church which dates back to Norman times. There, Robert the Bruce married his second wife Elizabeth de Burgh in 1302.
Writtle has a distinguished place in the history of radio broadcasting. In the early 1920s it was the site of the experimental Marconi station 2MT ("Two Emma Toc"), from where Captain Peter Eckersley made the name of the village famous with his station announcement "this is Two Emma Toc, Writtle testing, Writtle testing".
