Great Maplestead
Great Maplestead is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England.
Great Maplestead is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 385.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Maplestead
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.
- 01Hedingham Castle
Hedingham Castle, in the village of Castle Hedingham, Essex, is arguably the best preserved Norman keep in England. The castle fortifications and outbuildings were built around 1100, and the keep around 1140.
2.4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Castle Hedingham, United Kingdom · 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.
Getting to Great Maplestead
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 29 km · London Luton (LTN), 70 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 94 km
- Stations
- Sible and Castle Hedingham railway station, 2.7 km
- Luton, Luton → Great Maplestead72 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £9–12
- London → Great Maplestead73 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Maplestead162 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £18–24
- 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 Maplestead
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 Maplestead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Great Maplestead – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Great Maplestead
- Castle Hedinghamvillage in Essex, England, UK2.2 km
- Little Maplesteadvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK1.8 km
- Sible Hedinghamvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.6 km
- Wickham St. Paulvillage in Essex, England, UK2.9 km