Great Bentley
Great Bentley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of north east Essex, England, located seven miles east of Colchester.
Great Bentley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of north east Essex, England, located seven miles east of Colchester. The village is scattered round an extensive level or common, of 43 acres (17 ha), on the eastern side of the vale of a rivulet, seven miles (11 km) east-south-east of Colchester. This common is the second largest village green in the United Kingdom, at a size of 43 acres (17 ha), behind Duncan Down, and has won 'Essex Village of the Year' and 'Daily Telegraph/Calor Gas Village of the Year' awards.
The parish has an area of 3,188 acres (12.90 km2) and extends southward to Flag Creek, a tidal creek that connects with the Colne, near Brightlingsea. It includes the hamlets of Aingers Green and South Heath. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,517.
Great Bentley railway station provides the village with frequent rail services along the Sunshine Coast Line to London Liverpool Street, Clacton-on-Sea, Colchester and Walton-on-the-Naze.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Bentley
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.
- 01Frating Abbey
Frating Abbey was reputedly an abbey in the village of Frating, in Essex, England. There is no evidence however that there was more than a farm here belonging to either St Botolph's Priory, Colchester, founded c.
1.3 km · notional abbey in Essex, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Bentley
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 57 km · London Luton (LTN), 98 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 113 km
- Stations
- Weeley railway station, 3.4 km · Great Bentley railway station, 0 m
- London, Essex → Great Bentley91 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £10–13
- London → Great Bentley91 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £10–13
- Luton, Luton → Great Bentley102 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–18
- 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 Great Bentley
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 Bentley. 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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Next door to Great Bentley
- Fratingvillage in Essex, England, UK3.1 km
- Thorringtonvillage and civil parish in Essex, UK2.2 km
- Weeleyvillage in Essex, England, UK3.6 km
- Hare Greenhamlet in Essex, England, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Aingers Greenvillage in Essex, England, UK1.3 km