ARU Writtle parkrun

Writtle is a village and civil parish on the outskirts of Chelmsford in Essex with a population of around 5,300 people. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as Writelam and subsequently as Writela. It was a Royal demesne and the site of one of King John's hunting lodges, built in c.1210 and demolished in the 16th century. The estate was also once in the possession of Isabel de Brus (the Bruce) who is the great-grandmother of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots who also held the estate in the 1320s. King Robert married his second wife Elizabeth de Burgh in Writtle in 1302.Writtle is a large village with buildings such as the Church of All Saints dating back to the 13th century, a number of timber-framed buildings from the 15th century, a village green and a duck pond. It was once home to the radio station, 2MT, which in the early 1920s, was the first British radio station to make regular entertainment broadcasts, and the world's first regular wireless broadcast for entertainment. The…