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Cressing

Cressing is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England.

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The place

Cressing is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. Within the parish is the village of Tye Green and the hamlet of Hawbush Green. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,988.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cressing

5 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
    Cressing Road

    Cressing Road, also known as the Rare Breed Meat Co. Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Braintree, Essex, and the home ground of Braintree Town, and formally their reserve side.

    2.7 km · football stadium in Braintree, Essex, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cressing Temple

    Cressing Temple is a medieval site situated between Witham and Braintree in Essex, close to the villages of Cressing and White Notley. It was amongst the very earliest and largest of the possessions of the Knights Templar in England, and is currently open to the public as a visitor attraction.

    2.4 km · ancient monument situated between Witham and Braintree in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Braintree Town Hall

    Braintree Town Hall is a municipal facility in the Market Square in Braintree, Essex, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Braintree and Bocking Urban District Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

    4 km · municipal building in Braintree, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Braintree

    Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Braintree is a Catholic parish church in Braintree, Essex, England.

    4 km · Catholic church in Braintree, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    The Barley Barn

    The Barley Barn is an architecturally important medieval barn, part of a complex of farm buildings at Cressing Temple, Essex, England. The barn was built for the Knights Templar in the early thirteenth century.

    2.3 km · barn at Cressing Temple in Essex, England, UK · 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.

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Getting to Cressing

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 25 km · London Luton (LTN), 67 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 85 km
Stations
White Notley railway station, 2.2 km · Cressing railway station, 1.8 km · Braintree Freeport railway station, 2.7 km · Braintree railway station, 3.6 km
  • London → Cressing
    23 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £2.5–3
  • Luton, Luton → Cressing
    23 km · quickest by road, 40 min · £2.5–3.5
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Cressing
    170 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £19–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cressing

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundBus services are provided by three minibuses circling around the various estates.

From Wikivoyage: Witham, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    186 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    335 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    373 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

    594 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cressing

  • Bradwellvillage and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England, UK2.8 km
  • Silver Endvillage in Essex, England, UK2.1 km
  • Black Notleyvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.6 km
  • Stistedvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.8 km
  • White Notleyvillage in Essex, England, UK3.1 km
  • Tye Greenvillage in Braintree District, Essex, United Kingdom1.2 km