Not as dated as actually living here though! Nah, don't really mean that. I've been living in Chelmsford since 1980 and have grown very fond of it. My local sits at what used to be one end of the Chelmer (Springfield) Cursus, and my house is a stone's throw from the other end where there was a wooden circle (pic of it here at http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6094/1623/400/Chelmer%20Cursus.jpg In fact the whole Chelmer Valley area has been settled continuously since around 2,500BCE. In the playing fields of the local school there stands a 10 foot sculpture of a Neolithic arrowhead that was found on the spot (the sculpture is 10 foot not the actual arrowhead :-) Just up the road, at Springfield Lyons, are the remains of a Bronze Age circular enclosure excavated in the mid 1980s by the British Museum but now sadly about to disappear under a car showroom :-( The R*mans built a fort here in ACE60 and called the place Caesaromagus (Caesar's Marketplace) hence its setting for Chelmsford 123. The Museum has some excellent pre-R*oman and R*oman artefacts on show as well as quite a bit of info on the Cursus.

I'll stop now (though might apply for a job with the local tourist office ;-)