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Black Notley

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

Black Notley
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Cressing 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
  2. 02
    Cressing 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
  3. 03
    The 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
  4. 04
    Braintree 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
  5. 05
    Bocking 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
  6. 06
    Cuckoo 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
  7. 07
    Our 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

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 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 Notley
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £8–10
  • Luton, Luton → Black Notley
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Black Notley
    169 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £19–26
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundBus services are provided by three minibuses circling around the various estates.

From Wikivoyage: Witham, 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

    184 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    338 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    370 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    559 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    593 km

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

Around it

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