Now in its 14th Year!

  Camulos is the name of a Celtic war god, from whose name is derived Camulodunom, the pre-history name for Colchester, the oldest recorded town in Great Britain and Britain's First City. When the Romans came to stay, they re-named us as Camulodunum and created a colonia here. Colonia Ceastre (fortress colony) was born - and which, naturally, evolved to become Colchester.

This site will tell you of Colchester's history; it will give you a virtual guided tour of the town/castle/town walls/town hall, etc; it will tell you about its Inns, Taverns and Pubs; you can find out who is inscribed on our war memorials; some who are buried in our cemeteries; it has an extensive collection of old postcards of the town; as well as many other things, too numerous to mention.

A quick index of some of this site's contents follows:

VISITOR INTEREST	HISTORY INTEREST	GENERAL INTEREST	LOCAL GROUPS
A Virtual Tour of Colchester	Colchester in Old Postcards	Colchester's Town Crier	Friends of Colchester Museums
Colchester Castle	Colchester Men at Trafalgar	Colchester's Archer of the Fayre	Colchester Archaeological Group
Colchester's Town Hall	Colchester's Oyster Feast	Queen Boadicea in Colchester	The Colchester Town Watch
The Colchester Roman Trail	Colchester's War Memorials	Colchester - Local Information	Colchester Recalled - oral history project
Colchester's Roman Circus	The Inns, Taverns and Pubs of Colchester	A World Heritage Site?	Colchester Sea Cadets
Walk Colchester's Roman Wall Trail	Colchester's Heroes - Rolls of the Fallen	Colchester's T Shirt	Colchester Roman Society - Roman re-enactors
Colchester - the Outer Town	Colchester's Heritage - A Cause for Concern?	Colchester's Witches	The Colchester Festival Association
Colchester's Cemetery - Who Is Buried There?	Siege of Colchester - Starvation and Surrender	Colchester and Motorcycling	GOLD (pubs)
Colchester's Famous Ghost Tour	Colchester and Arthur	History Re-enactment in Colchester	French Language Lessons in Colchester
Colchester's Pubs - Where to go.	Colchester's Archaeology and History - general & links	Britannia Cars - Made in Colchester
Tymperleys Clock Museum	Camulodunum Park at Gosbecks	Colchester Man - DNA Project	Local Links

Or you can search here for specific words contained within this website.

 

WHAT'S NEW AT CAMULOS?

Try our

 

A TOUR OF COLCHESTER (The most visited site at Camulos) incorporating, Walk the Town Centre Our Norman Castle Walking the Walls Visit the Town Hall Gosbecks  Roman Trail	Old Pictures of the Town in the form of old postcards and some earlier images (The second most visited site at Camulos)
Colchester's pubs, ancient and modern. With access to the book The Inns, Taverns and Pubs of Colchester	'Who holds the power in Colchester?', 'How to contact them?'
A Cause for Concern?	Those men and women who lost their lives during the two world wars.
What heritage sites do we have and which have been destroyed or are threatened?	The only Roman circus known in Britain.
Woad Rage began here in Colchester!	Local Information Official, Places to Stay, Attractions, Associations, etc
Some history of Colchester's famous oyster feast.	The Colchester Festival Official Website
Something of our archaeological and recent history.	and other burial sites in Colchester
	The T Shirt
Cars made in Colchester	WITCHES IN COLCHESTER
Motorcycling in Colchester	Colchester's Sea Cadets
The Colchester Roman Society (re-enactors of our Roman heritage)	Colchester North District Scouts and 2nd Lexden Scout Group
	FEEDBACK What have people said about this site? The positive comments only!

English Longbow Competition in the Castle Park

Colchester Men who fought at Trafalgar

A WARNING! As you have probably already discovered, this site makes noises and has animations. That should be a clear indication that this is a fun site. We just thought that we would mention this as some folks don't appreciate that sort of thing; they hate the design of the site; they want to offer their services to redesign it; etc. So, if you are at work, turn the volume down now. We accept no responsibility for the contents of this site, nor are we looking for any awards. The people who are responsible are those that lived their lives many years ago and gave us our history. We simply record it here for the edification of others. For those without a sense of humour, or the pea-brained with politically correctness syndrome, we can recommend this.