The Essex Inn offers its guests elegant and spacious accommodations and fine southern hospitality in a lovely setting nestled in the heart of Tappahannock, Virginia downtown historic district.

The Essex Inn has recently been featured in several magazines and newspaper articles. Read what the press has to say:
The House and Home Magazine, getaway around the corner article

A Weekend with a Writer -- Emyl Jenkins
Chesapeake Life, travel articles & reviews in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia

An overnight at the Essex Inn on Virginia’s Middle Peninsula means spending a weekend with a writer, a calico cat, and Robert E. Lee.
By Mary K. Zajac Photography by Skip Brown

Hanover Lifestyle, July/August 2007

"We're very centrally located" says innkeeper, Melodie Pogue. "We're right in the middle of the Northern Neck."