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Colne Engaine

Colne Engaine is a village and civil parish in Essex, England, situated just north of the River Colne and of the larger village of Earls Colne, approximately ten miles northwest of Colchester.

The place

Colne Engaine is a village and civil parish in Essex, England, situated just north of the River Colne and of the larger village of Earls Colne, approximately ten miles northwest of Colchester. The village takes its name from the river, around which it is likely that the earliest settlements were made, and the Engaine family, who were the principal family of the village between 1279 and 1367. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 998.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Colne Engaine

4 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
    Chalkney Wood

    Chalkney Wood is a 72.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Earls Colne in Essex, England. 25 hectares is owned by Essex County Council and 48 hectares by Forestry England.

    3.6 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Earls Colne in Essex · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brickfield and Long Meadow

    Brickfield and Long Meadow is a 3.9 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Earls Colne in Essex, England. There is access by footpaths from Park Lane, Church Hill and the Coggeshall Road.

    2 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St. Francis of Assisi, Halstead

    St Francis of Assisi, Halstead is a Catholic parish church in Halstead, Essex.

    3.1 km · church in Halstead, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stanstead Hall

    Stanstead Hall is a historic building in Greenstead Green on the outskirts of Halstead, Essex. It has been a Grade II* listed building since 1952.

    2.8 km · house in Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Colne Engaine

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 32 km · London Luton (LTN), 73 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 95 km
Stations
Earls Colne Airfield, 3 km · Earls Colne railway station, 700 m · Halstead railway station, 3.9 km · White Colne railway station, 2.4 km
  • London → Colne Engaine
    74 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £9–11
  • Luton, Luton → Colne Engaine
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £9–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Colne Engaine
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Colne Engaine

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    197 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    325 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    380 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    557 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    591 km

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