Dedham Vale
This year’s AGM is being held in Dedham on Saturday, October 4
Friday 22 August 2025
Summer is beginning to ease into autumn, meaning one thing: it’s time for the CPRE Essex AGM! This year’s event is being held on the afternoon of Saturday, October 4, at the Assembly Rooms in Dedham. We will be meeting at 2pm for a 2.30pm start. Our guest speaker will be Paul Gallifant, editor of […] Read more >
Campaign looks to keep Dedham Vale in the dark (in the best possible way)
Tuesday 28 May 2024
The Dedham Vale National Landscape on the Essex-Suffolk is renowned for its beauty, but it’s a beauty that lasts into the night courtesy of the area’s dark skies. And now a campaign has been launched to ensure those dark skies – so gloriously free of light pollution – are protected and indeed enhanced. The Dedham […] Read more >
Our AONBs are under threat like never before, new report reveals
Thursday 22 April 2021
Essex is blessed with two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs): Dedham Vale and Suffolk Coast and Heaths… all right, we share them with Suffolk, but they are both wonderful stretches of countryside. AONBs are some of the country’s most precious landscapes, which you might expect to mean they were safe from being built on. […] Read more >
Time to enjoy our AONBs… and perhaps have a ponder as to their future
Wednesday 4 March 2020
Spring, we trust, will soon be upon us and many from both within the county and beyond will be heading for the Essex countryside. One of its greatest treasures is the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which north Essex shares with south Suffolk, so this is a good time to consider the role […] Read more >
Celebrate the glory of Dedham Vale and the Stour Valley at this very special forum
Monday 13 May 2019
The Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley comprise one of the many glories of Essex (even if we do have to share it with neighbouring Suffolk!). Next month you can learn a little more about this wonderful area at the Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley Forum being held at the fantastic Shrubs Farm Barn, […] Read more >
Decision day could be close for Dedham Vale AONB campaigners
Monday 11 March 2019
One of the most delightful areas of Essex lies on the northern fringe of the county on its boundary with Suffolk. Much of this landscape is incorporated within the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Beauty, a designation that a group of campaigners believe should be extended north-west towards Sudbury, strengthening the protection of a broader […] Read more >