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Fordstreet

Fordstreet or Ford Street is a village on the A1124 road, in the civil parish of Aldham in the Colchester district in Essex, England.

The place

Fordstreet or Ford Street is a village on the A1124 road, in the civil parish of Aldham in the Colchester district in Essex, England. It is located on the River Colne and is near the city of Colchester. Artist Damon Albarn lived there as a child.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Fordstreet

6 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
    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.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed church in West Bergholt, Colchester, Essex, England, UK · 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.

    1.4 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.

    3.2 km · church in Marks Tey, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    East Anglian Railway Museum

    The East Anglian Railway Museum is a railway museum at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, England. The station is on the Sudbury Branch Line, the former Great Eastern Railway route between Marks Tey and Sudbury.

    3 km · industrial railway museum in Essex, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Chappel Viaduct

    The Chappel Viaduct is a railway viaduct that crosses the River Colne in the Colne Valley in Essex, England. It carries the Gainsborough Line which now is a short branch linking Marks Tey in Essex to Sudbury in Suffolk.

    2.8 km · railway viaduct in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Crepping Hall

    Crepping Hall is a historic building in Wakes Colne, Essex. Since 1952, it has been Grade I listed.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed building in Wakes Colne, Colchester, 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.

Go there

Getting to Fordstreet

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 38 km · London Luton (LTN), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 99 km
Stations
Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station, 3 km · Marks Tey railway station, 3 km
  • London → Fordstreet
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Fordstreet
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Fordstreet
    176 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Fordstreet

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 Fordstreet. 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

    199 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    321 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    386 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    564 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    598 km

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

Around it

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  • Copfordvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3 km
  • Marks Teyvillage in Essex, England, UK3.7 km
  • Eight Ash Greenvillage and civil parish in Essex, UK2.5 km
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