Great and Little Leighs
Great and Little Leighs is a civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England.
Great and Little Leighs is a civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England. The main village in the parish is Great Leighs. The parish also includes Little Leighs and a number of small hamlets in the surrounding rural area. It lies 4 miles (6 km) south of Braintree and 6 miles (10 km) north of Chelmsford. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,968.
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Worth seeing in and around Great and Little Leighs
4 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.
- 01Leez Priory
Leez Priory is a 16th-century mansion in Little Leighs, a small parish in the district of Chelmsford in the county of Essex, England. The civil parish boundary between Felsted and Great and Little Leighs crosses the priory, so that it partially lies in Felsted and partially in Great and Little Leighs.
2.9 km · building in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Lyons Hall
Lyons Hall is a Grade II listed house in Great Leighs, Essex. The house dates to the 15th century.
1.9 km · Grade II listed house in Great Leighs, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Cuckoo Wood
Cuckoo Wood is a 2.5 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Braintree in Essex. It is owned by Braintree District Council and managed by Essex County Council as an educational resource.
4 km · park in Braintree, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04River Ter SSSI
The River Ter SSSI is a stretch of the River Ter and its banks south of Great Leighs in Essex which has been designated a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
1.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great and Little Leighs
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 20 km · London Luton (LTN), 60 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 77 km
- London → Great and Little Leighs56 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Great and Little Leighs64 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great and Little Leighs169 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Great and Little Leighs
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 Great and Little Leighs. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundBus services are provided by three minibuses circling around the various estates.
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Great and Little Leighs is 53 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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