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Aldham, Essex

Aldham is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England.

The place

Aldham is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It is located 4+1⁄2 mi (7.2 km) west of Colchester. The village is in the parliamentary constituency of Harwich and North Essex. The village has its own parish council.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Aldham, Essex

6 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
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints Church is a Church of England parish church in Fordham, Essex. The church is a Grade I listed building.

    2.9 km · church in Fordham, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's Church is a Church of England parish church in the Essex village of Marks Tey. It was Grade I listed in 1965.

    1.6 km · church in Marks Tey, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Michael and All Angels

    The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Copford is a 12th-century parish church located near the small village of Copford, Essex. It most likely served as a chapel to nearby Copford Hall, once owned by the bishops of London.

    3.1 km · historic church in Copford,, Essex, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Copford Hall

    Copford Hall is a manorial seat and Grade II listed country house, with gardens by Capability Brown, in the village of Copford, Essex, England, 46 miles from London. The building was at one time owned by the bishops of London, and its grounds are described in Pevsner as "almost the beau idéal of what to the foreigner is an English landscape scene".

    3.1 km · English country house in Copford Green, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Chappel Viaduct

    The Chappel Viaduct is a railway viaduct that crosses the River Colne in the Colne Valley in Essex, England. It carries the Gainsborough Line which now is a short branch linking Marks Tey in Essex to Sudbury in Suffolk.

    3.7 km · railway viaduct in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Crepping Hall

    Crepping Hall is a historic building in Wakes Colne, Essex. Since 1952, it has been Grade I listed.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed building in Wakes Colne, Colchester, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Aldham, Essex

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 38 km · London Luton (LTN), 79 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 98 km
Stations
Marks Tey railway station, 1.4 km
  • London → Aldham, Essex
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £11–14
  • Luton, Luton → Aldham, Essex
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £11–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Aldham, Essex
    174 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Aldham, Essex

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 Aldham, Essex. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundMany National Cycle Routes run off-road and are not suitable for certain bicycle types, e.g.

From Wikivoyage: Colchester, 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

    198 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    322 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    386 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    565 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    599 km

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

Around it

Next door to Aldham, Essex

  • Great Teyvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
  • Fordhamvillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Copfordvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK1.8 km
  • Marks Teyvillage in Essex, England, UK2.1 km
  • Eight Ash Greenvillage and civil parish in Essex, UK2.7 km
  • Stanwayvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.5 km