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Ardleigh

Ardleigh is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England.

Ardleigh
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The place

Ardleigh is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is situated approximately 4 miles (6 km) northeast from the centre of Colchester and 26 miles (42 km) northeast from the county town of Chelmsford. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,758.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ardleigh

3 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
    Ardleigh Gravel Pit

    Ardleigh Gravel Pit is a 1.2-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Ardleigh in Essex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    1.4 km · Site in Essex, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bullock Wood

    Bullock Wood is a 23.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Colchester in Essex. The site is mature coppice with a wide variety of trees.

    3.7 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ardleigh Reservoir

    Ardleigh Reservoir is a 49-hectare lake near Colchester in Essex, England constructed in the valley of the Salary Brook. It supplies water both to Anglian Water and to Affinity Water.

    2.3 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ardleigh

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 52 km · London Luton (LTN), 93 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 112 km
Stations
Ardleigh railway station, 600 m · RAF Boxted, 3.7 km
  • London, Essex → Ardleigh
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £9–12
  • London → Ardleigh
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Ardleigh
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ardleigh

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 Ardleigh. 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

    210 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    309 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    400 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    571 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    605 km

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

Around it

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