By car
If you are travelling to the campus by car, please use the University’s address below and park in ‘Valley Car Park’ just off of Boundary Road. There will be additional signage to direct you in the correct parking area on the day, and our Traffic Officers will be on hand to guide you to the parking bays which have been allocated for Applicant Day visitors.
Please take a look at this handy map of our Colchester Campus for more directions.
The address for our Colchester Campus is:
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ (for SatNav purposes please use CO7 9HT, which will take you to the main Wivenhoe Entrance to access Valley Car Park via Boundary Road).
By train
If you have travelled by train, the following bus routes will take you to our Campus:
From Colchester North Station: S1. You can view the route map here.
The buses run every 15 to 20 minutes from Colchester North Station, taking you through Colchester City Centre, our closest city to campus.
At the end of the Applicant Day, we will be running a free coach service to Colchester North Station which will depart from our Colchester Campus at 4.00pm. You can reserve your place on the free coach when booking your Applicant Day via your myEssex portal.