Great Totham
Great Totham is a village and civil parish in Maldon district, Essex, England, and midway between Chelmsford and Colchester.
Great Totham is a village and civil parish in Maldon district, Essex, England, and midway between Chelmsford and Colchester. The village includes the Island of Osea in the Blackwater estuary and is separated into two parts, north and south. The north side and the south side are about a mile and a half apart, distributed along the B1022. The parish contains the hamlet of Totham Hill. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 3,056.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Totham
3 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.
- 01Braxted Park
Braxted Park, formerly called Braxted Lodge, is a country house in the Queen Anne style set in a landscaped 2,000 acre park near the village of Great Braxted, Essex. In the Domesday Book of 1086, Eudo Dapifer is shown as owner of the manor.
3.1 km · 17th century house near Witham, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Lofts Farm Pit
Lofts Farm Pit is a 4.5-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Heybridge, a suburb of Maldon in Essex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
3.2 km · geological site in Essex, England · Wikipedia - 03Whet Mead
Whet Mead, usually styled as Whetmead, is a 10.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Witham in Essex. It is owned by Braintree District Council and managed by Witham Town Council.
3.7 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Totham
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 34 km · London Luton (LTN), 74 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 87 km
- London → Great Totham65 km · quickest by road, 2h · £7–10
- Luton, Luton → Great Totham78 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £11–14
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Totham181 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £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 Totham
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 Totham. 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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- Little Braxtedvillage located in Maldon, United Kingdom3.6 km
- Great Braxtedvillage in Essex, England1.8 km
- Tolleshunt Majorvillage in Essex, England, UK3.7 km
- Tiptree Heathhamlet in Essex, England, UK3.4 km