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Book-hunting route · Colchester

Dogs Trust and 8 more

9 shops · about 21 minutes on foot · 1.5 km

9 stops make up this walk, running 21 minutes from Dogs Trust on Trinity Street past The Colchester Bookshop. It continues onto Sir Isaac's Walk for St Helena, then St Johns Street for Oxfam, before a run of shops on Crouch Street that includes Age UK and House of Joy. It finishes at Emmaus on Osborne Street.

Open the route in Google Maps Walking directions, stop by stop. The line above follows the streets, routed on OpenStreetMap data.

The stops, in walking order

Starts at the end nearest the city centre. Times are pavement estimates at an easy pace.

  1. 1 Dogs Trust

    Charity shop · Trinity Street · CO1 1JN

  2. 2

    1 min walk

    The Colchester Bookshop

    Second-hand bookshop · Trinity Street · CO1 1JN

  3. 3

    2 min walk

    St Helena

    Charity shop · Sir Isaac's Walk · CO1 1JJ

  4. 4

    1 min walk

    Oxfam

    Charity shop · St Johns Street · CO2 7AD

  5. 5

    4 min walk

    Age UK

    Charity shop · Crouch Street · CO3 3EN

  6. 6

    2 min walk

    House of Joy

    Second-hand bookshop · Crouch Street · CO3 3EN

  7. 7

    1 min walk

    Sense

    Charity shop · Crouch Street · CO3 3EN

  8. 8

    3 min walk

    St Helena Hospice

    Charity shop · Crouch Street · CO3 3EY

  9. 9

    11 min walk

    Emmaus

    Charity shop · Osborne Street · CO2 7DP

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How the route is built

Shops within about 400 metres of the next one count as one run, walked from the end nearest the centre. Long runs are cut into legs of ten stops or fewer. The distance follows the streets; the minutes are an easy-pace estimate. Opening hours are whatever OpenStreetMap has on record: check the volunteer-run ones before you set out.

See all charity shops in Colchester, or read our guide to finding good books in charity shops.

Nearby: Charity shops in Ipswich· Charity shops in Chelmsford· Charity shops in Southend-on-Sea· Charity shops in Cambridge

Shop data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.

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