Castle Hedingham
Castle Hedingham is a village and civil parish in northern Essex, England, located four miles west of Halstead and 3 miles southeast of Great Yeldham in the Colne Valley on the ancient road from Colchester, Essex, to Cambridge.
Castle Hedingham is a village and civil parish in northern Essex, England, located four miles west of Halstead and 3 miles southeast of Great Yeldham in the Colne Valley on the ancient road from Colchester, Essex, to Cambridge. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,186.
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Worth seeing in and around Castle Hedingham
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.
- 01Hedingham Castle
Hedingham Castle, in the village of Castle Hedingham, Essex, is arguably the best preserved Norman keep in England. The castle fortifications and outbuildings were built around 1100, and the keep around 1140.
200 m · Grade I listed historic house museum in Castle Hedingham, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Kirby Hall
Kirby Hall is a house in Castle Hedingham, Braintree, Essex.
2 km · house in Castle Hedingham, Braintree, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Castle Hedingham
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 28 km · London Luton (LTN), 68 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 93 km
- Stations
- Yeldham railway station, 3.6 km · Sible and Castle Hedingham railway station, 1.3 km
- Luton, Luton → Castle Hedingham71 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £9–12
- London → Castle Hedingham73 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Castle Hedingham160 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £18–24
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Castle Hedingham
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 Castle Hedingham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe complete route requires ferry crossings, and follows a mix of on- and off-road paths and terrains.
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Next door to Castle Hedingham
- Great Yeldhamvillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom4 km
- Little Maplesteadvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.9 km
- Sible Hedinghamvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.1 km
- Little Yeldhamvillage in Essex, England, UK3.9 km
- Southey Greenhamlet in Essex, England, UK3.8 km