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Great Waltham

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Waltham

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.

  1. 01
    Pleshey Castle and town enclosure

    Castle in Essex, England, UK

    3.2 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 Waltham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 18 km · London Luton (LTN), 57 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 73 km
  • London → Great Waltham
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Great Waltham
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Waltham
    169 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Waltham

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 Waltham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt is served by Stena Line ferries from Hook of Holland (), near The Hague and Rotterdam.
  • Get inAt Harwich, Harwich International railway station is attached to the ferry terminal.
  • Get inis served by the Harwich Harbour Ferry during summer months, direct from Shotley and Felixstowe, both in Suffolk.

From Wikivoyage: Essex (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    174 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    347 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    362 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    559 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    594 km

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

Around it

Next door to Great Waltham

Great Waltham is 48 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Little Walthamvillage and suburb of Chelmsford, Essex, England2 km
  • Plesheyvillage in Essex, England, UK3.4 km
  • Broomfieldsuburban village and civil parish in Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK3.4 km
  • Chignallcivil parish and suburb of Chelmsford, Essex, England,4 km
  • Ford Endvillage in Essex, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Chignall Smealyvillage in Essex, England, UK3.3 km