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Chignall St James

Chignall St James is a village in the civil parish of Chignall, in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England.

The place

Chignall St James is a village in the civil parish of Chignall, in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England. The village is situated 3 miles (5 km) north-west of the centre of Chelmsford.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chignall St James

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.

  1. 01
    Writtle 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.

    2.4 km · university in Essex, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Newney Green Pit

    Newney Green Pit is a 0.07-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Writtle in Essex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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.

Go there

Getting to Chignall St James

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 19 km · London Luton (LTN), 55 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 69 km
  • London → Chignall St James
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £5–7
  • Luton, Luton → Chignall St James
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Chignall St James
    178 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £20–27
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chignall St James

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    169 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    351 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    358 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    560 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    595 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chignall St James

Chignall St James is 44 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Writtlevillage and suburb of Chelmsford, Essex, England3.7 km
  • Roxwellvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.7 km
  • Great Walthamvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.3 km
  • Broomfieldsuburban village and civil parish in Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK3.7 km
  • Mashburyvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
  • Chignallcivil parish and suburb of Chelmsford, Essex, England,500 m