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

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.
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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.
- 01Cressing 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 - 02Cressing 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 - 03Braintree 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 - 04Our 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 - 05The 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
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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 → Cressing23 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £2.5–3
- Luton, Luton → Cressing23 km · quickest by road, 40 min · £2.5–3.5
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Cressing170 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £19–26
- 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 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.
- Get aroundBus services are provided by three minibuses circling around the various estates.
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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