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Blake End

Blake End is a hamlet on the B1256 road in the civil parish of The Salings, in the Braintree district of Essex, England.

The place

Blake End is a hamlet on the B1256 road in the civil parish of The Salings, in the Braintree district of Essex, England. The hamlet is situated between the towns of Braintree and Great Dunmow. Nearby settlements include the parish village of Great Saling and the hamlet of Gransmore Green.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Blake End

2 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
    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.

    3.8 km · park in Braintree, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in Rayne, Essex. The church is notable for its early 16th-century red-brick tower, built for Sir William Capel, and for a major 19th-century reconstruction of the nave and chancel.

    3 km · Grade I listed church in Rayne, 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.

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Getting to Blake End

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 16 km · London Luton (LTN), 58 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 79 km
Stations
Andrewsfield Aerodrome, 2.5 km · Bannister Green Halt railway station, 1.6 km
  • Luton, Luton → Blake End
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £7–10
  • London → Blake End
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Blake End
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £18–24
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Blake End

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 Blake End. 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

    181 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    342 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    364 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    552 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    587 km

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

Around it

Next door to Blake End

Blake End is 55 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Felstedvillage in Uttlesford, Essex, England, UK3.5 km
  • Raynevillage and civil parish in Essex, UK2.9 km
  • Panfieldvillage in Essex, England, UK4 km
  • Great Salingvillage in Essex, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Bannister Greenvillage in Essex, England, UK2.4 km
  • The Salingscivil parish in Braintree, Essex, England3.4 km