The village of Writtle lies in Essex, England, just two miles to the west of Chelmsford. It's home of Writtle College, one of the UK's oldest and largest land-based colleges and a partner institution of the University of Essex. Writtle has a traditional village green, complete with duck pond, and Norman church and has been described as: 'one of the loveliest villages in England, with a ravishing variety of ancient cottages'. The suggestion that Writtle's the birth place of Robert the Bruce (or… (More on Writtle)