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Gants Hill

Gants Hill is an area of Ilford in East London, England, within the borough of Redbridge.

Gants Hill
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The place

Gants Hill is an area of Ilford in East London, England, within the borough of Redbridge. It is a suburb 9.5 miles (15.3 km) east northeast of Charing Cross. It lends its name to a central roundabout where five roads meet.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gants Hill

10 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
    Wanstead Park

    Wanstead Park is a municipal park covering an area of about 140 acres, in Wanstead, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is also a district of the London Borough of Redbridge, which was in Essex until 1965.

    2.4 km · municipal park covering an area of about 140 acres (57 hectares), located in Wanstead, in the London Borough of Redbridge · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Valentines Park

    Valentines Park is a 52-hectare park, south of Gants Hill, it is the largest green space in the London Borough of Redbridge. The park was originally the grounds of Valentines Mansion, a residence built in 1696.

    700 m · park in the London Borough of Redbridge, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue

    Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Wanstead, in the Borough of Redbridge, London, England, in the United Kingdom. The congregation is a member of the Movement for Reform Judaism.

    3.3 km · synagogue in the UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary the Virgin, Wanstead is a Church of England church in Wanstead, east London. It is located on Overton Drive and now shares its parish with Christ Church, Wanstead.

    2.8 km · historic church in Wanstead, Redbridge, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    South Park

    South Park is an Edwardian park to the south of Ilford, East London. It is one of the largest open spaces in the London Borough of Redbridge.

    2.6 km · public park near London · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Our Lady of Lourdes, Wanstead

    Our Lady of Lourdes church is the Catholic parish church for Wanstead in the London Borough of Redbridge and parts of Leytonstone in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The parish is part of the Diocese of Brentwood.

    3.3 km · Catholic church in London, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Valentines Mansion

    Valentines Park is a 52-hectare park, south of Gants Hill, it is the largest green space in the London Borough of Redbridge. The park was originally the grounds of Valentines Mansion, a residence built in 1696.

    700 m · UK historic house museum, Ilford · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Barking Park

    Barking Park is a public park covering 30 hectares to the northeast of Barking town centre in east London. It was opened as the Recreation Ground in 1898 by the Barking Town Urban District Council and is now the oldest public park in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

    3.7 km · park in Barking, east London, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Exchange Ilford

    The Exchange Ilford is the main retail shopping mall of Ilford, east London. It was owned by The Mall Fund for a period of time but has been sold and changed its name to Exchange Ilford in late 2010 or early 2011.

    1.9 km · shopping mall in Ilford, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Mary's Church, Little Ilford

    St Mary's Church, or Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Little Ilford, east London. It is situated on Church Road between St Mary's Approach, St Winefride's Avenue and Rectory Road.

    3.3 km · church in Little Ilford, London · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Gants Hill

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 36 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 39 km · London Luton (LTN), 45 km
Stations
Gants Hill tube station, 400 m · Hainault tube station, 3.3 km · Snaresbrook tube station, 3.5 km · South Woodford tube station, 3.5 km · Barkingside tube station, 1.5 km
  • London → Gants Hill
    15 km · quickest by road, 56 min · £1.5–2
  • Luton, Luton → Gants Hill
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Gants Hill
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £18–24
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gants Hill

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 Gants Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inUse Woolwich Ferry then for destinations in south London.

From Wikivoyage: London/East, 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

    138 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    332 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    382 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    562 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    597 km

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

Around it

Next door to Gants Hill

Gants Hill is 13 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • London Borough of Redbridgeborough in the London Region in England2.1 km
  • Ilfordtown in the London Borough of Redbridge, England, UK2.4 km
  • Wansteaddistrict in east London, England3 km
  • Goodmayesarea in the London Borough of Redbridge, England, UK3.3 km
  • Seven Kingsdistrict of Ilford in east London, England, part of the London Borough of Redbridge2.1 km
  • Barkingsidearea of Ilford, London1.3 km