Black Notley
Black Notley is a village and civil parish in Essex, England.

Black Notley is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located approximately 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) south of Braintree and is 9 miles (14 km) north-northeast from the county town of Chelmsford. As well as the village itself, the parish also includes rural areas including the hamlets of Row Green and Young's End. At the 2021 census the Black Notley built up area had a population of 1,952 and the parish had a population of 2,589.
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Worth seeing in and around Black Notley
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.
- 01Cressing Road
Cressing Road, also known as the Rare Breed Meat Co. Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Braintree, Essex, and the home ground of Braintree Town, and formally their reserve side.
2.6 km · football stadium in Braintree, Essex, England · Wikipedia - 02Cressing Temple
Cressing Temple is a medieval site situated between Witham and Braintree in Essex, close to the villages of Cressing and White Notley. It was amongst the very earliest and largest of the possessions of the Knights Templar in England, and is currently open to the public as a visitor attraction.
3.4 km · ancient monument situated between Witham and Braintree in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03The Barley Barn
The Barley Barn is an architecturally important medieval barn, part of a complex of farm buildings at Cressing Temple, Essex, England. The barn was built for the Knights Templar in the early thirteenth century.
3.4 km · barn at Cressing Temple in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Braintree Town Hall
Braintree Town Hall is a municipal facility in the Market Square in Braintree, Essex, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Braintree and Bocking Urban District Council, is a Grade II* listed building.
3 km · municipal building in Braintree, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Bocking Blackwater
Bocking Blackwater is a 13.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Braintree in Essex. It is owned and managed by Braintree District Council.
4 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Cuckoo Wood
Cuckoo Wood is a 2.5 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Braintree in Essex. It is owned by Braintree District Council and managed by Essex County Council as an educational resource.
3.4 km · park in Braintree, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Braintree
Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Braintree is a Catholic parish church in Braintree, Essex, England.
3.1 km · Catholic church in Braintree, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Black Notley
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 23 km · London Luton (LTN), 64 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 82 km
- Stations
- White Notley railway station, 2.5 km · Cressing railway station, 800 m · Braintree Freeport railway station, 1.9 km · Braintree railway station, 2.7 km
- London → Black Notley61 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £8–10
- Luton, Luton → Black Notley68 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Black Notley169 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £19–26
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No local-transport research exists yet for Black Notley
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 Black Notley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundBus services are provided by three minibuses circling around the various estates.
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Next door to Black Notley
Black Notley is 58 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Braintreetown in Essex, England3.1 km
- Cressingvillage in Essex, England, UK2.6 km
- Great Notleyvillage in Essex, England2.3 km
- Fairsteadvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.4 km
- White Notleyvillage in Essex, England, UK2.4 km
- Tye Greenvillage in Braintree District, Essex, United Kingdom1.5 km