Celebrity TV chef Jamie Oliver's Essex home was once at the centre of a 150-year sunken treasure mystery. The star lives in a Grade-I listed mansion in the Essex village of Finchingfield, near ...

Then there's the Elizabethan country house of Spains Hall, which is nearby. It is surrounded by 150 acres of woodland, inclusive of 11 miles of public footpaths and 9 miles of bridle paths.