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Great Horkesley

Great Horkesley is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England, approximately 3 miles north of Colchester.

Great Horkesley
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The place

Great Horkesley is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England, approximately 3 miles north of Colchester. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,697.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Great Horkesley

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 44 km · London Luton (LTN), 86 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 105 km
  • London, Essex → Great Horkesley
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–12
  • London → Great Horkesley
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Great Horkesley
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Horkesley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundMany National Cycle Routes run off-road and are not suitable for certain bicycle types, e.g.

From Wikivoyage: Colchester, 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

    205 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    315 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    393 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    566 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    600 km

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