Great Notley
Great Notley is a village and civil parish in the Braintree District of Essex, England.
Great Notley is a village and civil parish in the Braintree District of Essex, England. It largely comprises modern housing built to the south-west of the town of Braintree, from which it is separated by the A120 road. The name Great Notley was coined in the 1990s for the modern developments here; the area historically formed the western part of the parish of Black Notley. The new civil parish of Great Notley was created in 2000. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 6,632.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Notley
7 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.
- 01Cressing Road
Cressing Road, also known as the Rare Breed Meat Co. Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Braintree, Essex, and the home ground of Braintree Town, and formally their reserve side.
3.2 km · football stadium in Braintree, Essex, England · Wikipedia - 02Braintree Town Hall
Braintree Town Hall is a municipal facility in the Market Square in Braintree, Essex, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Braintree and Bocking Urban District Council, is a Grade II* listed building.
2.4 km · municipal building in Braintree, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Braintree
Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Braintree is a Catholic parish church in Braintree, Essex, England.
2.6 km · Catholic church in Braintree, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Bocking Blackwater
Bocking Blackwater is a 13.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Braintree in Essex. It is owned and managed by Braintree District Council.
3.8 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Cuckoo Wood
Cuckoo Wood is a 2.5 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Braintree in Essex. It is owned by Braintree District Council and managed by Essex County Council as an educational resource.
1 km · park in Braintree, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Chapel Of The Immaculate Conception, Franciscan Convent
The Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, Franciscan Convent is a Roman Catholic chapel run by the Missionary Franciscan Sisters in Bocking, Essex, England.
3.8 km · chapel in Braintree, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of All Saints
All Saints' Church is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in Rayne, Essex. The church is notable for its early 16th-century red-brick tower, built for Sir William Capel, and for a major 19th-century reconstruction of the nave and chancel.
2.4 km · Grade I listed church in Rayne, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Notley
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 21 km · London Luton (LTN), 62 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 81 km
- Stations
- Cressing railway station, 3.1 km · Braintree Freeport railway station, 2.5 km · Braintree railway station, 2.4 km
- London → Great Notley59 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £7–10
- Luton, Luton → Great Notley65 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Notley166 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £19–25
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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 Notley
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 Notley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundBus services are provided by three minibuses circling around the various estates.
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Next door to Great Notley
Great Notley is 57 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Braintreetown in Essex, England2.3 km
- Raynevillage and civil parish in Essex, UK2.4 km
- Black Notleyvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.3 km
- Tye Greenvillage in Braintree District, Essex, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Young's Endhamlet in Essex, England, UK1.5 km
- Edith Borthwick Schoolcommunity special school in Braintree, Essex, England3.2 km