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Ashingdon

Ashingdon is a village and civil parish in the Rochford District of Essex, England.

Ashingdon
Ashingdon · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ashingdon is a village and civil parish in the Rochford District of Essex, England. It lies immediately north of Rochford and 13 miles (21 km) south-east of Chelmsford. As well as Ashingdon itself, the parish also includes the small village of South Fambridge. The northern boundary of the parish is the tidal River Crouch. The Ashingdon built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics extends beyond the parish boundary into the neighbouring parish of Hawkwell. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 3,485 and the Ashingdon built up area had a population of 6,485.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ashingdon

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
    Rochford Hall

    Rochford Hall is a manor in Rochford, Essex, England. During the reign of King Henry VIII, it belonged to Thomas Boleyn, who was then Viscount Rochford, and it was the marital home of his daughter Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn, and Mary's second husband, Sir William Stafford.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed building in Rochford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Laurence and All Saints Church

    St Laurence and All Saints is a Grade I listed medieval church in the parish of Eastwood, Essex, England, near to Southend-on-Sea. Its location adjacent to the perimeter of London Southend Airport has led to the church being threatened by proposals to expand the airport.

    4 km · church in Southend-on-Sea, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hockley Spa Rooms

    The Spa Pump Room is a Grade II listed, early Victorian building in Hockley, Essex. It was built to the designs of James Lockyer in 1842 after a medicinal spring was discovered on the site four years earlier.

    2.5 km · building in Hockley, Rochford, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hockley Woods

    Hockley Woods is a large woodland in south-east Essex. It is a Local Nature Reserve, and parts are a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

    3.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Magnolia Fields

    Magnolia Fields or Magnolia Park is a 9.7 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Hawkwell in Essex. It is owned by Rochford District Council and managed by Hawkwell Parish Council.

    700 m · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Mary and All Saints

    St Mary and All Saints is the parish church of Great Stambridge, and since 1888 Little Stambridge, both in Essex, United Kingdom. The earliest parts of the church, which comprise parts of the nave and chancel, were built before the Norman Conquest of 1066.

    3.4 km · church in Great Stambridge, Essex, England, UK · 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 Ashingdon

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 45 km · London Luton (LTN), 79 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 79 km
Stations
London Southend Airport, 3.6 km · Southend Airport railway station, 3.9 km · Hockley railway station, 2.5 km · Rochford railway station, 2.4 km
  • London, Essex → Ashingdon
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £6–8
  • London → Ashingdon
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Ashingdon
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ashingdon

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    173 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    345 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    375 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    586 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    620 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ashingdon

Ashingdon is 56 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Rochfordtown in Essex, England, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Canewdonvillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Suttonvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK4 km
  • Hawkwellvillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom2.1 km
  • Stambridgecivil parish in Rochford, Essex, England3.4 km
  • South Fambridgevillage in Essex, United Kingdom3.3 km