Once upon a time we (my cricket club) got drawn away to Colchester in the national cup so I looked into what the route was going to be to get there, and you basically can't drive to Essex from here. It's impossible. Fortunately the good Lord intervened and the tie got reversed so they ended up coming to us, which I feel is the way it should be, in the same way that peasants used to have to visit the home of their liege lord to appeal for alms or whatever was barely keeping them alive in those days.