Abridge
Abridge is a village in Essex, England.

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.
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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.
- 01Hainault 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 - 02Hill 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 - 03Loughton 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 - 04Debden 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 - 05Chigwell 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 - 06Parish 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 - 07Epping 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
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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 → Abridge23 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £2.5–3.5
- Luton, Luton → Abridge45 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £5–7
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Abridge166 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £18–24
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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.
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Next door to Abridge
Abridge is 20 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Loughtontown in Essex, England3.1 km
- Theydon Boisvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.6 km
- Theydon Garnonvillage in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
- Theydon Mountvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.7 km
- Stapleford Abbottsvillage and civil parish in the district of Epping Forest, Essex, England, UK3.4 km
- Lambournevillage in Essex, England, UK1.5 km