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Great Leighs

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great 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.

  1. 01
    Leez Priory

    Building in Essex, England, UK

    3 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cuckoo Wood

    Park in Braintree, United Kingdom

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Lyons Hall

    Grade II listed house in Great Leighs, Essex, England, UK

    1.9 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    River Ter SSSI

    UK Site of Special Scientific Interest

    1.9 km · 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 Leighs

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 20 km · London Luton (LTN), 60 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 78 km
  • London → Great Leighs
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Great Leighs
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Leighs
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £19–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great 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 Leighs. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundBus services are provided by three minibuses circling around the various estates.

From Wikivoyage: Witham, 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

    179 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    342 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    365 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    558 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    593 km

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

Around it

Next door to Great Leighs

Great Leighs is 53 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.