This is a list of towns, villages and most notable hamlets and neighbourhoods in the ceremonial county of Essex (not the historic county).

Harlow

Brentwood

Grays

Basildon

Chelmsford

Colchester

Southend-on-Sea

Billericay

Clacton-on-Sea

Walton-on-the-Naze

Saffron Walden

Braintree

Harwich

Witham

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Some of the larger settlements of Essex

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