Great Yeldham
Great Yeldham is a village and civil parish in north Essex, England, about 6 miles (10 km) from the Suffolk border.
Great Yeldham is a village and civil parish in north Essex, England, about 6 miles (10 km) from the Suffolk border. It is situated along the main A1017 road between Braintree and Haverhill. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,948.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Yeldham
2 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.
- 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.
3.7 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Castle Hedingham, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Kirby Hall
Kirby Hall is a house in Castle Hedingham, Braintree, Essex.
2.1 km · house in Castle Hedingham, Braintree, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Yeldham
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 27 km · London Luton (LTN), 66 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 93 km
- Stations
- Yeldham railway station, 500 m
- Luton, Luton → Great Yeldham69 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £8–11
- London → Great Yeldham74 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Yeldham156 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £17–23
- 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 Yeldham
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 Yeldham. 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.
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Next door to Great Yeldham
- Castle Hedinghamvillage in Essex, England, UK4 km
- Ridgewellvillage in Essex, England, UK3.7 km
- Little Yeldhamvillage in Essex, England, UK2.3 km
- Tilbury Juxta Clarevillage in Essex, England, UK2 km
- Toppesfieldvillage in Essex, England, UK2.3 km
- Knowl Greenhamlet in Belchamp St Paul, Braintree, Essex, England3.8 km