The County Hotel

Chelmsford

A very warm welcome

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2 minutes walk from the station 5 minutes walk from the town centre 30 minutes from Liverpool Street 24 hours at your service

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Welcome To our 50 room hotel affiliated to the Classic British Hotels Group - unbranded, unfranchised a true original

We boast beautiful rooms, state of the art conference facilities, lovely function rooms, and a restaurant, the County Kitchen, which isn´t just any old Hotel restaurant. It is something very special indeed.

We aim to offer a stylish hotel with a contemporary feel, and we are committed to providing a level of customer care second to none.

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Bedrooms We have 50 fabulous bedrooms offering an extremely comfortable nights sleep under cosy duvets

They provide everything that the weary traveller might need, and a most important detail, is thatwe spent many months sourcing and testing the most comfortable mattresses we could find anywhere in the UK. You won’t be disappointed.

Our Suite and 16 Premium rooms are decorated with fabrics from Italy and carpets from Morocco and are as elegant and stylish as any to be found anywhere in East Anglia.

All our bedrooms have Wi-Fi (free access) and LCD TV’s with Freeview. They are all en-suite and most have showers as well as baths, tea and coffee making facilities, hairdryer, trouser press, modem points, direct dial telephone and room service is available 24 hours a day.

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Not just a Hotel Restaurant but a destination venue

We care deeply about good food and good cooking and when we sent our young chef off to work in two of the best restaurants in the country it paid off. Soon after his return we were awarded an AA rosette for culinary excellence.

The County Kitchen is the very heart of our hotel and people come from miles around to eat here. It´s unpretentious and great value.

We always do our level best to obtain the freshest, locally sourced produce and even have our own fisherman who lands his line caught catch in Wivenhoe and brings it straight from the dock to our Kitchen. That is hard to beat.

We care about good food and we care about you

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Conference As one of the Regions leading conference venues we have three main conference rooms and two boardrooms

We have five modern, stylish, state of the art conference rooms which are very smart indeed and providing a congenial pleasant atmosphere in which to conduct allimportant business. All with natural light, “T-Loop�; Video conference facilities are also available.

These rooms are also used for private dining. We are accredited by the Meetings Industry Association [M.I.A.] which is supported by Visit Britain. All the rooms have natural daylight are fully air conditioned, spacious and very well presented. They offer mineral fridges in all the rooms, and full conference porterage.

We are one of the regions leading conference venues and have three main conference rooms and two boardrooms.

They can be hired on a half day, full day or evening only basis or our Daily Delegate Package comes with

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morning coffee and pastries a 2 course buffet lunch, afternoon tea and homemade cakes or icecreams in summer.

Flip chart, screens, DVD players and 42� plasma TV’s all come within the package price. We also have LCD projectors and telephone and video conferencing available.

Any number of delegates from 2 to 150 people seated theatre style can be accommodated. We also offer a 24 hour conference package.

We are ideally located for East Anglia being just 10 minutes off the A12 one of the regions main arterial roads with easy access to Ipswich, Colchester, Norwich and Cambridge and just 25 minutes from the M25.

Making business a pleasure

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Crystal room A very pretty room that was the old hotel ball room

It is now a wonderfully adapatable venue for large numbers - weddings, functions, dances or presentations.

It can seat up to 150 people.

Making your event the best it can be

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Lounge bar We offer a wonderful selection of wines, which come predominantly from Europe

We have a comfortable lounge bar where you can meet informally and enjoy a cup of coffee, a drink, or something delicious to eat from our bar menu.

Relax, unwind, enjoy

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How to find us

By Road: From the M25 motorway Leave M25 at Junction 28 to join the A12 towards Brentwood / A1023 / Chelmsford. Follow the A12 and leave at junction 15 to Chelmsford. Take the first exit at the roundabout onto the A414. Enter next roundabout and take second exit onto London Road (Tenpin Bowling Alley will be on your left).

Enter next roundabout (Widford roundabout) and take 1st exit onto Westway, sign posted Widford Industrial Estate. Go straight through 3 sets of traffic lights (follow signs for Broomfield Hospital A&E, Civic Centre and West End).

Westway becomes Waterhouse Lane; Waterhouse Lane becomes Rainsford Lane. As you go through the 3rd set of traffic lights, take the left - hand folk, (there are two lanes that go off to the left, stay in the right hand lane). Head straight over to another set of traffic lights which are turning right (signposted Railway Station / West End). Turn right and the hotel is on your right.

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From Stansted Airport Depart from Stanstead Airport on Bassingbourn Road.

At the roundabout, take the first exit onto Bassingbourn Road. At the next roundabout, take the second exit and again at the next roundabout. Bear left onto slip road and continue onto A120. Exit onto slip road and turn left onto the A130. At the roundabout, take the first exit onto Essex Regiment Way (A130). At the next roundabout, take the third exit onto Braintree Road (B1008). Continue onto B1008. At the roundabout, take the first exit onto Main Road (B1008). Bear right onto Parkway (A138). Turn left onto Rainsford Road.

The hotel is on your right.

By Rail Chelmsford Train Station (0.2 miles). Up to 6 trains per hour direct routes to and from central London in 35minutes.

By Air Stansted Airport (18 miles) Gatwick Airport (60 miles)

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Environmental Policy We aim to source 70% of our ingredients for the kitchen from within a 60 mile radius.

We have reduced the number of New World Wines on our list offering instead traditionally crafted lighter European Wines.

We have installed Low Energy light bulbs in all our corridors and public areas and are introducing them where possible throughout the Hotel.

We have introduced a strict re-cycling policy which has seen a 60% reduction in our waste that we send to landfill sites.

Wherever possible all our paper and envelopes come from a recycled source.

We are moving towards introducing ecologically friendly detergents and cleaning products not only for our bedrooms but also in the kitchen.

We are actively looking to have all our Hot Water heated from renewable energy.

We are working closely with The Carbon Trust, we aim to reduce our power consumption by some 35% and carbon emissions by some 40% or 75 tonnes per year.

Through our supplier we have signed up to A.I.S.E Charter for Sustainable Cleaning.

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The County Hotel 29 Rainsford Road, Chelmsford CM1 2PZ Tel: 01245 455700 - Fax: 01245 492762 kloftus@countyhotelgroup.co.uk www.countyhotelchelmsford.co.uk

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