VR Hire Chelmsford
A county cricket ground in the middle of the city, a racecourse with two floors of conference space, and a 574-acre parkland estate on the edge of town. Essex's county city is quietly well equipped.
We know Chelmsford's venues
The Army & Navy flyover came down in 2025 and what replaced it is an at-grade junction that queues badly at peak — which matters because that is the main southern approach into the city. Anyone quoting Chelmsford from a map rather than from experience will underestimate it. We time arrivals against the junction and, where it's tight, come in from a different direction entirely.
The cricket ground sits unusually centrally for a county venue, with five rooms plus boxes and a marquee that operates April to September only. Hylands Estate offers something quite different: 574 acres of parkland with a Grand Pavilion taking 300, about as far from a hotel function suite as Essex gets. The racecourse adds two floors of conference space and forty boxes for larger corporate days, and Anglia Ruskin's city campus covers lecture theatres up to 400.
Essex CCC, five rooms plus boxes, city centre
574-acre parkland, Grand Pavilion to 300
Two floors of conference space, 40 boxes
City campus lecture theatres to 400
Ground-floor meeting spaces, A12 J19
Chelmsford Business Park floors fit us
Rooms we work in around Chelmsford and Essex. The cricket ground was renamed in 2025, and its marquee space runs April to September only — worth knowing for a winter enquiry.
What we bring to Chelmsford events
VR Golf
Signature holes from a county cricket pavilion; the sporting crossover lands well.
Explore VR Golf →
VR Clay Shooting
Essex's country-sport staple indoors, with 574 acres outside if you want both.
Explore VR Clay Shooting →
Virtual Sports Day
Team rounds and a final — the racecourse's two floors give it genuine scale.
Explore Virtual Sports Day →The practical bit
Travel
No travel charge applies anywhere across Chelmsford and the surrounding county. Southern approaches are timed against the Army & Navy junction, which since the flyover came down has become the single most reliable way to be late here.
Booking
Cricket season shapes the county ground's availability and December shapes everything else. Outside those, Essex books comfortably and midweek dates are wide open.
Good questions, straight answers
Has the flyover demolition made access worse?
Can you run an event at Hylands?
Is the cricket ground available year-round?
Do you cover Southend, Basildon and south Essex?
How much notice is sensible?
Can we use Hylands for an outdoor element too?
We also cover
Planning a Chelmsford event?
Tell us the date and headcount — quotes back within one working day, with Chelmsford travel and logistics already priced in.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 07306 803 133 — lines answered weekdays 9am to 6pm.
Get your Chelmsford quote
Tell us the date and headcount — quotes back within one working day. Prefer to talk? Call 07306 803 133.