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Billericay

Billericay is a historic market town and civil parish in the Borough of Basildon, Essex, England.

Billericay
Billericay · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Billericay is a historic market town and civil parish in the Borough of Basildon, Essex, England. It lies 23 miles (37 km) east of the City of London. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 28,562 and the built-up area was 34,075.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Billericay

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.

  1. 01
    Ingatestone Hall

    Ingatestone Hall is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Essex, England. It is located outside the village of Ingatestone, approximately 5 miles south west of Chelmsford and 25 miles north east of London.

    4.2 km · country house in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Edmund and St Mary, Ingatestone

    St Edmund and St Mary's Church is the Church of England parish church in the village of Ingatestone in Essex. It dates to the 11th century and received major modifications in the 17th century.

    5.2 km · Grade I listed church in Ingatestone, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's is a Grade II* listed parish church in the village of Buttsbury, approximately 1.5 miles north west of Ingatestone and 3.8 miles south east of Billericay in Essex, England. The present building dates from the 14th century, but St Mary's Church was mentioned in 1170, and the site is believed to have been where St Botolph preached under a pear tree in the 7th century.

    3.9 km · church in Buttsbury, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Giles

    St. Giles' Church is the parish church of Mountnessing, Essex, located about one and a half miles southeast of the village.

    3.1 km · church in Mountnessing, Essex, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Old Town Hall, Billericay

    The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Billericay, Essex, England. The structure, which currently operates as a restaurant, was the meeting place of Billericay Urban District Council.

    400 m · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Mary Magdalene

    Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade I-listed parish church located in the village of Great Burstead, about 1.5 mi south of Billericay, Essex, England. While the current building dates back to the 12th century, it's believed a wooden church may have been built on the site as early as the seventh century.

    2.7 km · church in Great Burstead, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hutton Country Park

    Hutton Country Park is a 37.4 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Brentwood in Essex. It is owned and managed by Brentwood Borough Council.

    4 km · park in United Kingdom · 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

The Cater Museum. On the High Street. Has many local historical artifacts. The Billericay Historical Walk is a good way of seeing the most interesting older buildings. There are several buildings from the 16th century in the High Street. Billericay's historic buildings are mixed in among some rather less attractive ones from the 1970s and 1980s. The Billericay Society.

  1. 01
    Norsey Woods

    A Nature Reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

From Wikivoyage: Billericay, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Barleylands. Just outside the town, has many things to see and do, including a children's farm centre and museum and a craft village. It can easily be accessed by public transport on the 100 bus from the town centre and station. Billericay Town Football Club. They play in the Ryman League Premier Division. Mill Meadows. A local nature reserve near the centre of Billericay.

From Wikivoyage: Billericay, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

There are loads of places to eat and drink for a place of its size. Prezzo, 6 High Street,. Mon-Thu noon-10PM, Fri Sat 11:30AM-10:30PM, Sun 11:30AM-9:30PM. Pizza, pasta and vino. Ask, 91 High St. Mon-Thu 11:30AM-9:30PM, Fri 11:30AM-10PM, Sat 11:30AM-11PM, Sun 11:30AM-9PM. Italian. La Toscana. Tue-Sat noon-2:30PM, 6-10PM. Italian. Yau's, 5 High St.. Mon-Thu 10AM-2PM, daily 5-11PM. Chinese. Dine in or take away.

From Wikivoyage: Billericay, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Billericay

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 31 km · London Luton (LTN), 61 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 63 km
Stations
Billericay railway station, 100 m · Ingatestone railway station, 4.9 km
  • London → Billericay
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £4–6
  • Luton, Luton → Billericay
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £8–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Billericay
    185 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £20–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Billericay

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 Billericay. 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

    159 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    356 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    359 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    572 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    607 km

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Around it

Next door to Billericay

Billericay is 37 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.