The White Horse Pleshey. Country pubrestaurant near Chelmsford in Essex. Pleshey itself has a very colourful history. Its earliest origins stretch back to the Bronze Age and, thereafter, to Roman Occupation. The area was known as Tumblestown in Saxon times, but was called Pleshey by the Normans, after the word “Plesseis” – meaning an enclosed space. It was the Normans who raised the great Mount, and under Geoffrey De Mandeville, Earl of Essex built the first castle in wood. Confiscated by King Stephen in 1143 during the civil war between the King and Matilda. Geoffrey met a bloody end a year later, but the castle was eventually restored to the family. By 1180, the castle had been refortified with the consent of Henry II and Pleshey’s first church established.

Address: The Street,Pleshey CM3 1HA
Telephone: 01245 237 281
Website: http://www.thewhitehorsepleshey.co.uk/