Mountfitchet Castle & House On The Hill Toy Museum

Mountfitchet Castle is a motte and bailey castle with an award winning Norman village that has been faithfully reconstructed on the original site. The castle is a national historic monument, protected by the Department of the Environment. It is believed to have been an early Iron Age fort with later Roman, Saxon and Viking settlements.

The House On The Hill Toy Museum is the largest privately owned Toy Museum in Europe with over 80,000 individual items of mixed antiquity on display, housed within an area of 7000 sq. ft. The artefacts range from the late Victorian era right through to the 1980's, and are based on the collection of one man who started in 1946 by buying a Hornby train set with his pocket money.