Great Tey
Great Tey is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England.
Great Tey is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It is near the villages of Marks Tey and Little Tey, located approximately six miles west of Colchester. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 921.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Tey
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.
- 01Church of St Andrew
St Andrew's Church is a Church of England parish church in the Essex village of Marks Tey. It was Grade I listed in 1965.
2.9 km · church in Marks Tey, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02East Anglian Railway Museum
The East Anglian Railway Museum is a railway museum at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, England. The station is on the Sudbury Branch Line, the former Great Eastern Railway route between Marks Tey and Sudbury.
3 km · industrial railway museum in Essex, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Chalkney Wood
Chalkney Wood is a 72.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Earls Colne in Essex, England. 25 hectares is owned by Essex County Council and 48 hectares by Forestry England.
2.5 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Earls Colne in Essex · Wikipedia - 04Chappel Viaduct
The Chappel Viaduct is a railway viaduct that crosses the River Colne in the Colne Valley in Essex, England. It carries the Gainsborough Line which now is a short branch linking Marks Tey in Essex to Sudbury in Suffolk.
2.4 km · railway viaduct in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Crepping Hall
Crepping Hall is a historic building in Wakes Colne, Essex. Since 1952, it has been Grade I listed.
3 km · Grade I listed building in Wakes Colne, Colchester, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Tey
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 35 km · London Luton (LTN), 77 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 96 km
- Stations
- Marks Tey railway station, 3.2 km · Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station, 3 km · White Colne railway station, 3.8 km
- London → Great Tey74 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Great Tey80 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £10–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Tey174 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £20–27
- 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 Tey
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 Tey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundMany National Cycle Routes run off-road and are not suitable for certain bicycle types, e.g.
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Next door to Great Tey
- Marks Teyvillage in Essex, England, UK3.1 km
- Aldhamvillage in Essex, England, UK2.7 km
- Wakes Colnevillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Chappelvillage in Essex, England, UK2 km
- Little Teyvillage in Essex, England, UK2.2 km
- Fordstreetvillage in Essex, England, UK3.1 km