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Great Henny

Great Henny is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district in the county of Essex, England.

Great Henny
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The place

Great Henny is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district in the county of Essex, England. Nearby settlements include the villages of Little Henny and Twinstead and the Suffolk market town of Sudbury. The hamlet of Henny Street, within the parish, is on the River Stour which forms the parish's eastern border. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 141.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Henny

5 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
    Gainsborough's House

    Gainsborough's House is the birthplace of the leading English painter Thomas Gainsborough. It is now a museum and gallery, located at 46 Gainsborough Street in Sudbury, Suffolk, England.

    3.5 km · museum in Sudbury, United Kingdom, birthplace of the leading English painter Thomas Gainsborough · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of the Holy Innocents

    Holy Innocents Church is an Anglican church in the village of Lamarsh, in Essex, England. The building has a round tower and dates from the 12th century.

    2.8 km · church in Lamarsh, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Gregory, Sudbury

    The Church of St Gregory, Sudbury is a Church of England parish church, located in the town of Sudbury in Suffolk, England. First mentioned in the 10th century, most of the present building dates from the 14th and 15th centuries.

    3.7 km · church in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Town Hall

    Sudbury Town Hall is a municipal building in Gaol Lane in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. The building, which was the headquarters of Sudbury Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.7 km · town hall in Sudbury, Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Peter's Church, Sudbury

    St Peter's Church, Sudbury is a former Anglican church in the town of Sudbury, Suffolk, England, which now serves as an Arts Centre. The building 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.

    3.6 km · church in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Great Henny

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 36 km · London Luton (LTN), 76 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 101 km
Stations
Sudbury railway station, 3.4 km
  • London → Great Henny
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Great Henny
    79 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £10–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Henny
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Henny

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe complete route requires ferry crossings, and follows a mix of on- and off-road paths and terrains.

From Wikivoyage: Long Melford, 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

    203 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    320 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    383 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    552 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    587 km

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

Around it

Next door to Great Henny

  • Sudburytown in Babergh, Suffolk, England3.9 km
  • Great Cornardvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.9 km
  • Lamarshvillage and civil parish in Essex, England3.2 km
  • Middletonvillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom1.8 km
  • Twinsteadvillage in Essex, England, UK1.2 km
  • Bulmervillage and civil parish in Essex, UK3.3 km