Harwich
Harwich is a port town and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England.
Harwich is a port town and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is one of the Haven ports on the North Sea coast. Nearby places include Felixstowe to the north-east, Ipswich to the north-west, Colchester to the south-west and Clacton-on-Sea to the south. It is the northernmost coastal town in Essex.
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Worth seeing in and around Harwich
10 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.
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- 02Harwich Low Lighthouse
Harwich High and Low Lighthouses are a pair of early 19th-century towers in Harwich, Essex, which were built as leading lights to help guide vessels into the harbour. They replaced an earlier pair of lights established in the seventeenth century when Harwich was a key operational base for the Royal Navy.
200 m · lighthouse in Harwich, Tendring, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Michaelstowe Hall
Michaelstowe Hall is a manor house in the village of Ramsey near Harwich, Essex, England. The present Michaelstowe Hall dates from 1903, but the Michaelstowe Estate has a long and varied history which can readily be traced back to the Domesday Book of 1086.
4.4 km · Grade II listed English country house in Ramsey and Parkeston, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Little Oakley Channel Deposit
Little Oakley Channel Deposit is a three-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Little Oakley in Essex, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
4.7 km · protected site in Essex, England · Wikipedia - 05Felixstowe Town Hall
Felixstowe Town Hall is a municipal building in Undercliff Road West, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England. The building is the meeting place of Felixstowe Town Council.
4.4 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia - 06Felixstowe Pier
Felixstowe Pier is a pleasure pier in the Edwardian seaside town of Felixstowe, Suffolk, England. It opened in August 1905 and measures 2,640 feet in length, once ranking among the longest in the country.
4.3 km · pleasure pier in Felixtowe, UK · Wikipedia - 07Shotley Pier
Shotley Pier is a disused 540 feet long railway pier in Shotley Gate, Shotley, Suffolk. Built in 1894 by Frederick Hervey, 3rd Marquess of Bristol, the structure was used to service a ferry across the River Stour to Harwich, Essex.
1.8 km · pier in Shotley Gate, Shotley, Babergh, Suffolk, England · Wikipedia - 08Erwarton Hall
Erwarton Hall and Gatehouse stand to the north of the village of Erwarton, on the Shotley Peninsula in Suffolk, England. Although earlier structures stood on the site, the present hall was rebuilt in around 1575 by Sir Philip Parker.
4.6 km · Grade II* listed house in Erwarton, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Harwich Foreshore
Harwich Foreshore is a 10.6-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Harwich in Essex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
400 m · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Harwich Redoubt
Harwich Redoubt is a circular fort built in 1808 to defend the port of Harwich, Essex from Napoleonic invasion. The Harwich Society opens it to the public.
300 m · fort built in 1808-10 in Harwich, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Harwich
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 73 km · London Luton (LTN), 114 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 131 km
- Stations
- Port of Felixstowe, 1.8 km · Felixstowe railway station, 4.9 km · Trimley railway station, 4.2 km · Harwich International railway station, 2.3 km · Dovercourt railway station, 800 m
- London, Essex → Harwich108 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £11–15
- London → Harwich108 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £11–15
- Luton, Luton → Harwich117 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £15–20
- 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 Harwich
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 Harwich. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTo join (): Use and North Circular Road within London Exit London Orbital (/) at Exit (/) at from The Midlands, Huntingdon, Cambridge and Ipswich Follow from London Stansted Airport, Great Dunmow and Braintree The Harwich Harbour Ferry operates between Shotley, Harwich and Felixstowe.
- Get inThe foot and bicycle ferry operates daily during spring, summer and autumn.
- Get inFrom , Stena Line operates daytime and overnight ferries from Hook of Holland, near The Hague and Rotterdam.
- Get inFerries carry motor vehicles across the North Sea, along with cyclists and passengers without vehicles.
- Get inFrom Felixstowe, use the Harwich Harbour Ferry to cross into Harwich.
From Wikivoyage: Harwich (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Harwich
- Felixstowetown in East Suffolk, England, UK4.8 km
- Dovercourtseaside town in Essex, England2.3 km
- Trimley St Maryvillage in Suffolk, England, UK4.4 km
- Trimley St Martinvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, UK5.4 km
- Shotleyvillage and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, England3.7 km
- Erwartonvillage in Suffolk, England4.8 km