Brentwood Facts

Ten things not a lot of people know about Brentwood:

• In the book I Claudius, Robert Graves refers to Brentwood as the place where Claudius defeated the ancient Britons
  
• The Peasants' Revolt (1381) was partly planned in Brentwood’s pubs and inns
  
• King Harold's father, the Earl of Godwin was born in Billericay
  
• Brentwood is home to the widely publicised Secret Nuclear Bunker built to keep our government safe while the rest of us perished.
  
• Paul Simon's first UK concert was played in Brentwood's Railway Inn Folk Club in 1964
  
• Brentwood was once home to the world-famous Thermos Flask factory
  
• Thorndon Park's 400 acre site of special scientific interest was first styled by Capability Brown
  
• Brentwood was the first place in Britain to manufacture trampolines
  
• Cliff Richard, Griff Rhys Jones, Noel Edmonds and Douglas Adams all went to school in Brentwood
  
• The East India Company used to have an elephant training school in Brentwood

With all this diversity in history, today's Brentwood still offers a great choice of things to see and do.