Essex begins at Dedham Vale according to The Guardian in a travel article which manages to sneak into Suffolk, and runs in fear from the working-class:
"A timeless rural landscape punctuated by the steeples of centuries-old
churches, where cows graze knee-deep in mist in the water meadows, it's
a far cry from the industrial wastelands of the Thames estuary or the
caravan parks of Clacton-on-Sea"
