Essex was an English county. One of the local newspapers was the Colchester Evening News. The Colchester Knights played football there. (TV: Closing Time)
Geography[]
Essex was located in the south-east of England, to the north-east of London. West of Essex was Oxford and to the north-west was Cambridge. (TV: Spyfall) Locations in Essex included Epping, (TV: Spearhead from Space) Colchester, (TV: Closing Time) Purfleet, (TV: Nightvisiting) Basildon, Brentwood, Chelmsford and Maldon. (TV: Spyfall)
Brook Cottage and Oxley Woods were located near Epping. (TV: Spearhead from Space)
History[]
Ancient history to 20th century[]
A ship full of Cybermen crashed in what would become the Essex town of Colchester, and remained buried and hidden for centuries. (TV: Closing Time)
On 10 August 991, the town of Maldon was the site of a Viking raid. (AUDIO: The Battle)
The Twelfth Doctor hangs out in 1138 Essex. (TV: The Doctor's Meditation)
After encountering a young Davros during the Thousand Year War, the Twelfth Doctor travelled to 1138 Essex to mediate but ended up partying for weeks instead. (TV: The Doctor's Meditation, The Magician's Apprentice)
Oxley Woods was located in the Essex town of Epping. In 1970, a formation of Nestene spheres landed in the wood. At the same time, the TARDIS materialised there, carrying the newly-regenerated Third Doctor. He was taken to Ashbridge Cottage Hospital by the UNIT troops who found him whilst searching for the the spheres. (TV: Spearhead from Space)
21st century[]
Information from Spyfall (TV story)
In the early 2000s, UNIT Colonels Emily Chaudhry and Robert Dalton killed a vârkolak on the Essex seashore. (AUDIO: Snake Head)
Craig Owens and the Eleventh Doctor in 2010 Essex. (TV: The Lodger)
At some point, a sentient ship (TV: The Lodger) once owned by the The Silence (TV: Day of the Moon) hid a atop a house at 79B Aickman Road, Colchester, by simulating another storey via a perception filter. In 2010, the Eleventh Doctor rented a spare room from Craig Owens at 79A Aickman Road after the ship lured and killed seventeen people in its the search for a compatible pilot. The Doctor, Craig, and Sophie stopped the ship and deactivated the perception filter. (TV: The Lodger)
By 2011, the Sanderson & Grainger department store had unknowingly been built atop the still-buried cyber-ship. In 2011, the ship and its Cybermen passengers began to reactivate, a Cybermat routing electricity to it. During this time, several people disappeared from the area. While visiting Craig, the Eleventh Doctor took a job in Sanderson & Grainger's toy department to investigate the disappearances. He and Craig found and destroyed the Cybership. (TV: Closing Time)
By 2016, Ensign Company LTD. was based at Juliette Close, Purfleet Ind. Park, Purfleet in Essex, RM15 4YF. (TV: Nightvisiting)
Known residents[]
Residents of Essex included Sam and Meg Seeley, (TV: Spearhead from Space) Craig Owens, Sophie, (TV: The Lodger) and Alfie Owens. (TV: Closing Time) The Eleventh Doctor also resided in Essex for a brief period. (TV: The Lodger)
The Thirteenth Doctor's companion Graham O'Brien was originally from Essex. (TV: The Witchfinders, Spyfall; PROSE: The Good Doctor)
Behind the scenes[]
- The U.N.I.T. tie-in website homepage lists Essex as one of the locations of UNIT, along with Geneva, Hong Kong, and New York.
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
