It is also the site of Varney Park, the Chelmsford Senior Center, and the North Chelmsford Water District.

The club promotes the use of junior players and local players from the Chelmsford and Essex area.

** Chelmsford City F. C., a football club in the above town.

At the end of the 2005 – 06 season, however, owner-manager Jeff King announced that he was no longer willing to fund the club any longer and left to join Isthmian League Premier Division side Chelmsford City.

In the 1969 – 70 season Brentwood Town reached the third round proper of the FA Cup, however at the end of that season the club effectively folded and amalgamated with another Southern League club Chelmsford City.

The club plays most of its home games at the County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford.

The club has partnered Chelmsford College and formed a football programme called SOCA ( Soccer Opportunities and Coaching Academy ) that helps develop talented young footballers and coaches, giving them a chance to develop their skills at recognised clubs and organisations whilst also gaining top coaching and educational qualifications.

* Dukes Genesis, a night club in Chelmsford, the county town of Essex.

This high number of awards for bravery has been interpreted as a reaction to the earlier defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana-the extolling of the victory at Rorke's Drift drawing the public's attention away from the great defeat at Isandlwana and the fact that Lord Chelmsford and Bartle Frere had instigated the war without the approval of Her Majesty's Government.

Anglia Ruskin University has campuses in Cambridge and Chelmsford, University Centres in King's Lynn, Peterborough and Harlow, and collaborative partnerships with institutions in a variety of locations throughout the world, including London, Berlin, Budapest, Athens, Basel, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Trinidad.

The Chelmsford Rivermead campus has also seen much development.

Chelmsford has a representative town meeting form of government.

The town has one public high school – Chelmsford High School – as well as two middle schools, and four elementary schools.

North Chelmsford, an industrial village, is distinct from the rest of the town to the extent that it has many of its own town services.

Like much of the rest of Massachusetts, Chelmsford has a humid continental climate according to the Köppen climate classification.

Chelmsford has one police station located near McCarthy Middle School.

Chelmsford has been represented in the Massachusetts Senate by state senator Susan Fargo since 1997.

Chelmsford has two middle schools, serving grades five through eight: Colonel Moses Parker Middle School, with 757 students ; and McCarthy Middle School, with 947 students.

The facility has since been moved to nearby Chelmsford.

He performed in the BBC radio comedy series Radio Active ( 1980 – 87 ) and has also starred in a number of TV comedy shows, including Who Dares Wins ( 1983 – 88 ), Chelmsford 123 ( 1988 – 90 ) and KYTV ( 1989 – 93 ) Round the Bend ( 1989 – 1991 ).

The towpath from Maldon to Chelmsford has been designated as a public footpath, and is maintained in good order.

Since the 1980s Chelmsford has suffered from a decline in its defence-related industries, most notably The Marconi Company with all of its factories closing.

Chelmsford is at the geographic and political centre of Essex and has been the county town since 1215.

Originally an agricultural and market town, Chelmsford has been an important centre for industry since the 19th century.

Chelmsford has three retail parks, Riverside, Chelmer Village and the smaller Homelands Retail Park housing a Flagship B & Q Store and Springfield Garden Centre ( part of the Garden centre Group ).

Chelmsford has a vibrant nightlife scene with many nightclubs, pubs, wine bars and restaurants in the city centre area, particularly in Duke Street, Moulsham Street, the city centre end of Baddow Road and the bottom section of Springfield Road.

Chelmsford has a Park & Ride service that is based at nearby Sandon, just off the A12 at Junction 18.

Following delimitation of the number of hackney carriage licences issued by the local authority in Chelmsford in 2005, the number of hackney carriage taxis that can ply for hire within the City of Chelmsford has risen from 82 to 175 prompting a long running dispute between Chelmsford City Council and Chelmsford Taxi Association over excessive taxi license numbers within the City.

One of the oldest and most prominent buildings in Chelmsford, it was built as a courthouse and there has been a court on the site since at least 1199.

Much damaged by fire and vandalism by the time of the sale, the house has now been completely restored by Chelmsford City Council.

Prior to the actual construction of the navigation, there had been almost 120 years of proposals for such a scheme, and opposition from the port of Maldon, which anticipated that its revenues would fall if vessels could travel to Chelmsford.

In addition, Frere planned to use the meeting on the boundary commission report with the Zulu representatives to also present a surprise ultimatum he had devised that would allow British forces under Lord Chelmsford, which he had previously been instructed to use only in defense against a Zulu invasion of Natal, to instead invade Zululand.

Chelmsford is also home to part of the Anglia Ruskin University ( formerly called Anglia Polytechnic ) and to the grammar schools of Chelmsford County High School and King Edward VI Grammar School, founded in 1551 by charter of King Edward VI on the site of an earlier educational foundation ( although evidence suggests it could have been around as early as 1292 ).

There is a synagogue which opened in 2009 in neighbouring Shenfield which serves the Chelmsford Jewish community, there is also a Jewish cemetery which has been there for many years.

The Chelmsford Rugby Football Club was established in 1920 and for the last 40 years have been playing rugby at Coronation Park, Timpsons Lane, Chelmsford.

Chelmsford declared that he had been sent away with less courtesy than if he had been a butler, but the testimony of Lord Malmesbury is that the affair was the result of an understanding arrived at when Lord Chelmsford took office.

He has been Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Chelmsford since the 1987 general election.

With a budget of £ 20, 000, 000 and individual contributions as high as £ 500, 000, improvements to programs and facilities have been ongoing since then in preparation for the 21st World Scout Jamboree in 2007, which was the 100th anniversary of Scouting, hosted at nearby Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Essex with related activities also being held at Gilwell Park.

Before his elevation to the peerage, Blyth had been created a Baronet, of Chelmsford in the County of Essex, in 1895.

Numerous messages, some quite early in the day, had been sent to Chelmsford informing him, initially, of the presence of the Zulu near the camp and, subsequently, of the attack on the camp, with increasingly urgent pleas for help.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is currently constructing the Bruce N. Freeman Rail Trail, running through Chelmsford, including the Central Square intersection.

Several bus services running from Chelmsford link Danbury with Maldon, Great Baddow, Little Baddow, South Woodham Ferrers, Sandon and various villages around Maldon.

It runs from the A41 at a junction west of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, through the town to junction 8 of the M1 motorway at Buncefield, and running parallel to the M1 until junction 7, heading south of St Albans, east through Hatfield, Hertford, then across the A10 and into Essex through Harlow, Chipping Ongar and Chelmsford before terminating at Maldon.

On 19 November 2010 Brendan Quinn's Twenty 7 Management, which had run the Causeway Retreat, pleaded guilty at Chelmsford Magistrate's Court, and was fined £ 8, 000 plus £ 30, 000 costs for running an unlicensed hospital.