Chelmsford
Worth seeing in and around Chelmsford
10 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.
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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.
Getting to Chelmsford
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 23 km · London Luton (LTN), 60 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 71 km
- Stations
- Chelmsford railway station, 100 m · Beaulieu Park railway station, 3.9 km
- London → Chelmsford48 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £5–6
- Luton, Luton → Chelmsford63 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Chelmsford182 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £21–27
- 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 Chelmsford
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 Chelmsford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt is served by Stena Line ferries from Hook of Holland (), near The Hague and Rotterdam.
- Get inAt Harwich, Harwich International railway station is attached to the ferry terminal.
- Get inis served by the Harwich Harbour Ferry during summer months, direct from Shotley and Felixstowe, both in Suffolk.
From Wikivoyage: Essex (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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If you know how people move in Chelmsford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Chelmsford
Chelmsford is 45 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Writtlevillage and suburb of Chelmsford, Essex, England3 km
- Sandonsuburban village and civil parish in Chelmsford, Essex, England4.5 km
- Great Walthamvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK5.5 km
- Borehamvillage in Essex, England5.7 km
- Great Baddowsuburban village and civil parish in Chelmsford, Essex, England3.1 km
- Broomfieldsuburban village and civil parish in Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK3.2 km