Great and Little Wigborough
Great and Little Wigborough is a civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England, about 6 miles (10 km) from Colchester.
Great and Little Wigborough is a civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England, about 6 miles (10 km) from Colchester. The parish includes the villages of Great Wigborough and Little Wigborough and the hamlet of Stafford's Corner on the B1026 road. The parish was created in 1953 as a merger of the two ancient parishes of Great Wigborough and Little Wigborough. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 231.
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Worth seeing in and around Great and Little Wigborough
One place 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.
- 01Abberton Reservoir
Abberton Reservoir is a pumped storage freshwater reservoir in eastern England near the Essex coast, with an area of 700 hectares. Most of its water is pumped from the River Stour.
2.1 km · reservoir in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great and Little Wigborough
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 44 km · London Luton (LTN), 85 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 98 km
- London, Essex → Great and Little Wigborough75 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £8–11
- London → Great and Little Wigborough75 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Great and Little Wigborough88 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £12–16
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Great and Little Wigborough
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 Wigborough. 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.
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