The village of Writtle lies in Essex, England, two miles west of Chelmsford. It is 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 a Norman church. It has been described as: 'one of the loveliest villages in England, with a ravishing variety of ancient cottages'. The suggestion that Writtle is the birth place of Robert the Bruce (or perhaps… (More on Writtle)