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Eight Ash Green

Eight Ash Green is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England.

Eight Ash Green
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The place

Eight Ash Green is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It is on the A1124 road, near Junction 26 of the A12 road. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,768.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Eight Ash Green

9 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
    Colchester Zoo

    Colchester Zoo is a zoological garden situated near Colchester, England. Open since June 1963, the zoo is home to many rare and endangered species, including big cats, primates and birds as well as many invertebrates and fish species.

    3.8 km · zoological garden situated in Colchester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints Church is a Church of England parish church in Fordham, Essex. The church is a Grade I listed building.

    2.8 km · church in Fordham, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's Church is a Church of England parish church in the Essex village of Marks Tey. It was Grade I listed in 1965.

    3.6 km · church in Marks Tey, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Old St Mary's Church, West Bergholt

    Old St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of West Bergholt, Essex, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed church in West Bergholt, Colchester, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Michael and All Angels

    The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Copford is a 12th-century parish church located near the small village of Copford, Essex. It most likely served as a chapel to nearby Copford Hall, once owned by the bishops of London.

    3.1 km · historic church in Copford,, Essex, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Copford Hall

    Copford Hall is a manorial seat and Grade II listed country house, with gardens by Capability Brown, in the village of Copford, Essex, England, 46 miles from London. The building was at one time owned by the bishops of London, and its grounds are described in Pevsner as "almost the beau idéal of what to the foreigner is an English landscape scene".

    3.1 km · English country house in Copford Green, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Leonard

    The Church of Saint Leonard is a Church of England parish church in Lexden, a suburb of Colchester in Essex, England. Originating in the early 12th century, the medieval building became unsafe and was demolished in 1820.

    2.9 km · church building in Lexden, Colchester, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Spring Lane Meadows

    Spring Lane Meadows or Lexden Springs is a 2-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Lexden, a suburb of Colchester in Essex. It is owned and managed by Colchester Borough Council.

    3 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lexden Park

    Lexden Park is an 8.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Lexden, a suburb of Colchester in Essex. It is owned and managed by Colchester Borough Council.

    3.1 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Eight Ash Green

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 40 km · London Luton (LTN), 82 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 100 km
Stations
Marks Tey railway station, 3.2 km
  • London, Essex → Eight Ash Green
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £8–11
  • London → Eight Ash Green
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Eight Ash Green
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Eight Ash Green

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundMany National Cycle Routes run off-road and are not suitable for certain bicycle types, e.g.

From Wikivoyage: Colchester, 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

    200 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    320 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    388 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    566 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    601 km

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

Around it

Next door to Eight Ash Green

  • Copfordvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.1 km
  • Fordhamvillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • West Bergholtvillage in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
  • Aldhamvillage in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
  • Stanwayvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK1.6 km
  • Lexdensuburb in Colchester, Essex, England, UK3.4 km