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Brantham

is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England.

Brantham
Brantham · John Constable
The place

is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. It is located close to the River Stour and the border with Essex, around 2 miles (3 km) north of Manningtree, and around 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Ipswich. In 2011 the parish had a population of 2566.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Brantham

One place 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
    St Mary's Church, Lawford

    St Mary's Church stands on Church Hill, Lawford, Essex, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Harwich, the archdeaconry of Colchester, and the diocese of Chelmsford.

    3.3 km · church in Lawford, 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 Brantham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 58 km · London Luton (LTN), 99 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 119 km
Stations
Manningtree railway station, 2.5 km · Bentley railway station (Suffolk), 2.7 km
  • London, Essex → Brantham
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £10–14
  • London → Brantham
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £10–14
  • Luton, Luton → Brantham
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Brantham

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 Brantham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inRural bus and minibus services run to surrounding villages, although some are very infrequent.

From Wikivoyage: Ipswich (England), 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

    218 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    302 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    406 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    571 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    605 km

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

Around it

Next door to Brantham

  • Manningtreetown and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England2.7 km
  • East Bergholtvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.3 km
  • Bentleyvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK2.5 km
  • Mistleyvillage and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England, UK3 km
  • Lawfordvillage in Essex, England, UK3.5 km
  • Capel St Maryvillage in Suffolk, England3.8 km