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Heckfordbridge

Heckfordbridge or Heckford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Birch, in the Colchester district, in the county of Essex, England.

The place

Heckfordbridge or Heckford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Birch, in the Colchester district, in the county of Essex, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Heckfordbridge

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.

  1. 01
    Colchester Zoo

    Colchester Zoo is a zoological garden situated near Colchester, England. Open since June 1963, the zoo is home to many rare and endangered species, including big cats, primates and birds as well as many invertebrates and fish species.

    700 m · zoological garden situated in Colchester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Michael and All Angels

    The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Copford is a 12th-century parish church located near the small village of Copford, Essex. It most likely served as a chapel to nearby Copford Hall, once owned by the bishops of London.

    1.5 km · historic church in Copford,, Essex, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Copford Hall

    Copford Hall is a manorial seat and Grade II listed country house, with gardens by Capability Brown, in the village of Copford, Essex, England, 46 miles from London. The building was at one time owned by the bishops of London, and its grounds are described in Pevsner as "almost the beau idéal of what to the foreigner is an English landscape scene".

    1.5 km · English country house in Copford Green, Essex, England, UK · 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 Heckfordbridge

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 41 km · London Luton (LTN), 82 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 99 km
Stations
Marks Tey railway station, 3.7 km
  • London, Essex → Heckfordbridge
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £8–11
  • London → Heckfordbridge
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Heckfordbridge
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £12–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Heckfordbridge

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundMany National Cycle Routes run off-road and are not suitable for certain bicycle types, e.g.

From Wikivoyage: Colchester, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    197 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    322 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    388 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    569 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    604 km

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

Around it

Next door to Heckfordbridge

  • Copfordvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.7 km
  • Marks Teyvillage in Essex, England, UK4 km
  • Layer de la Hayevillage in Essex, England, UK3 km
  • Stanwayvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
  • Layer Bretonvillage in Essex, England, UK3.3 km
  • Birchvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK1.6 km