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

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.
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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.
- 01Ardleigh 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 - 02Bullock 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 - 03Ardleigh 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 → Ardleigh90 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £9–12
- London → Ardleigh90 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Ardleigh96 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- Get aroundMany National Cycle Routes run off-road and are not suitable for certain bicycle types, e.g.
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