Chignall
Chignall is a civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England.
Chignall is a civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England. The parish includes the two small villages of Chignall St James and Chignall Smealy and surrounding rural areas. In the south-eastern tip of the parish it also includes some recent developments on the edge of the built up area of the city of Chelmsford. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 621.
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Worth seeing in and around Chignall
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.
- 01Writtle College
Writtle University College was a university college located in Writtle near Chelmsford, Essex. It was founded in 1893 and obtained University College status in May 2016.
2.8 km · university in Essex, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chignall
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 19 km · London Luton (LTN), 56 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 69 km
- London → Chignall48 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Chignall59 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Chignall177 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £20–27
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No local-transport research exists yet for Chignall
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 Chignall. 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.
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Next door to Chignall
Chignall is 44 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Roxwellvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.2 km
- Broomfieldsuburban village and civil parish in Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK3.3 km
- Mashburyvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
- Chignall St Jamesvillage in Essex, England, UK600 m
- Chignall Smealyvillage in Essex, England, UK1.5 km