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Bowers Gifford

Bowers Gifford is a village in the civil parish of Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet, located in the Borough of Basildon within the county of Essex, England.

Bowers Gifford
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The place

Bowers Gifford is a village in the civil parish of Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet, located in the Borough of Basildon within the county of Essex, England. It is located to the east of Pitsea and to the west of South Benfleet.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bowers Gifford

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
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, South Benfleet

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the parish church of South Benfleet, Essex. The church dates to around the 12th century, and predates the neighbouring Hadleigh Castle, which lies to the east a few miles away.

    3.4 km · church in South Benfleet, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Margaret

    The Church of St Margaret is a 14th-century grade II* listed church near Bowers Gifford, Essex. As is common with many Essex churches, it features a wooden bell-cot surmounting a stone tower.

    900 m · church in Bowers Gifford, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pitsea Marsh

    Pitsea Marsh is a 94.6-hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest in Pitsea in Essex. The southern half is the Wat Tyler Country Park, and the northern half is private land.

    1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Vange Hill

    Vange Hill is an 11.5 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Vange, a suburb of Basildon in Essex. It is owned and managed by Basildon Borough Council.

    2.9 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    All Saints Church, Vange

    All Saints Church is a redundant Anglican church in the former village of Vange, now part of the town of Basildon, Essex, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.4 km · church in Basildon, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Northlands Park, Basildon

    Northlands Park is a park in Basildon, Essex, England.

    2.5 km · park in Basildon · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Bowers Gifford

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 41 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 67 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 69 km
Stations
Pitsea railway station, 1 km · Benfleet railway station, 3.4 km
  • London, Essex → Bowers Gifford
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–6
  • London → Bowers Gifford
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–6
  • Luton, Luton → Bowers Gifford
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bowers Gifford

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 Bowers Gifford. 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

    160 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    357 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    363 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    582 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    617 km

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Around it

Next door to Bowers Gifford

Bowers Gifford is 43 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.