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.
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.
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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.
- 01Old 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 - 02Church 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 - 03Church 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 - 04East 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 - 05Chappel 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 - 06Crepping 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
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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 → Fordstreet77 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Fordstreet83 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Fordstreet176 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · £21–28
- 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 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.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Fordstreet – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Fordstreet
- Great Teyvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.9 km
- Fordhamvillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom1.9 km
- 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
- Stanwayvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.4 km