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Danbury Common

Danbury Common is a 70.2-hectare (173-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Danbury in Essex, England.

The place

Danbury Common is a 70.2-hectare (173-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Danbury in Essex, England. Most of it is common land owned by the National Trust, and two areas, the Backwarden and Hitchcock's Meadows, are part of Essex Wildlife Trust's Danbury Ridge Nature Reserves.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Danbury Common

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
    Danbury Country Park

    Danbury Country Park is a country park near Danbury in Essex, England, managed by Essex County Council. It is listed Grade II in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens, and it has received the Green Flag Award.

    1.1 km · country park in Essex, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Danbury Place

    Danbury Place was an English country house, first built by Sir Walter Mildmay in the time of Elizabeth I, dated to 1589. It is situated on one of the highest points of the county of Essex.

    1.2 km · country house 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 Danbury Common

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 30 km · London Luton (LTN), 67 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 76 km
  • London → Danbury Common
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £6–7
  • Luton, Luton → Danbury Common
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Danbury Common
    190 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £21–28
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Danbury Common

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 Danbury Common. 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

    173 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    345 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    368 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    571 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    606 km

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

Around it

Next door to Danbury Common

Danbury Common is 51 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.