Some tourist attractions or places suitable for a days outing nearby in North essex, Suffolk or Hertfordshire are:
 
Audley End Stately Home and Gardens.

University town of Cambridge, with its colleges, churches, the Fitzwilliam museum and punting on the river Cam.

Hatfield Forest and Epping Forest (ancient royal hunting forests)

Duxford Imperial War Museum

Newmarket Racecourse, National Stud and Horseracing Museum

Ancient garrison town of Colchester

The market town of Saffron Walden

Mole Hall Wildlife Park and Linton Zoo

Easy Access to picturesque Suffolk Villages and Constable Country (Flatford Mill, the scene for Constable’s Haywain).

Shopping in the nearby towns of Harlow and Bishops Stortford.

The Suffolk and Essex coast