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Abridge

Abridge is a village in Essex, England.

Abridge
Abridge · Krzysztof Golik
The place

Abridge is a village in Essex, England. It is on the River Roding, 16 miles (26 km) southwest of the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Epping Forest and in the parliamentary constituency of Brentwood and Ongar. It is part of the civil parish of Lambourne and is served by Lambourne Parish Council.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Abridge

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Hainault Forest

    Hainault Forest was a large wooded area in the English counties of Essex and Greater London which was mostly destroyed after 1851. Popular outrage at the destruction of most of the forest was an important catalyst for the creation of the modern environmental movement.

    3.2 km · Country park · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hill Hall

    Hill Hall is an Elizabethan, and later, country house in Theydon Mount near Epping, Essex, England. Although owned by English Heritage, the building has now been divided into many private apartments.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed country house in Theydon Mount, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Loughton Hall

    Loughton Hall is a large house in Rectory Lane, Loughton, Essex. The architect was William Eden Nesfield, and it is grade II listed with Historic England.

    2.9 km · house in Loughton, Epping Forest, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Debden House

    Debden House is a conference centre and campsite located in Loughton, Essex, England. The house is owned and operated by Newham London Borough Council.

    3.2 km · residential adult education college in Loughton, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Chigwell Row Wood

    Chigwell Row Wood is a 14.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Chigwell in Epping Forest district, Essex. It is owned by The Chigwell Row Recreation Ground Charity, of which the district council are the trustees, and managed by council staff and volunteers.

    3.7 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin

    St Mary's Church is a Grade II* listed Church of England church in Chigwell, Essex, England. Its parish was later united with that of All Saints Chigwell Row and then in 1994 with St Winifred's, which had been built in 1935 as a chapel of ease to St Mary's.

    3.9 km · church in Chigwell, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Epping Forest College

    New City College is a large college of further education with campuses in east London and Essex. The college was formed in 2016 through the amalgamation of separate colleges, beginning with the merger of Tower Hamlets College and Hackney Community College.

    3 km · further education college in Loughton, Essex, England · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Abridge

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 27 km · London Luton (LTN), 42 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 45 km
Stations
Theydon Bois tube station, 2.6 km · Debden tube station, 2.5 km · Stapleford Aerodrome, 2.6 km
  • London → Abridge
    23 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £2.5–3.5
  • Luton, Luton → Abridge
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Abridge
    166 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £18–24
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Abridge

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Abridge. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inUse Woolwich Ferry then for destinations in south London.

From Wikivoyage: London/East, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    146 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    336 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    375 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    557 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    593 km

If you know how people move in Abridge – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Abridge

Abridge is 20 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.