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Howe Street

Howe Street is a rural hamlet on the banks of the River Chelmer.

Howe Street
Howe Street · Frank Schulenburg
The place

Howe Street is a rural hamlet on the banks of the River Chelmer. It is situated in the civil parish of Great Waltham, in the Chelmsford district, in the county of Essex, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Howe Street

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.

  1. 01
    Pleshey Castle and town enclosure

    Pleshey Castle is a man-made motte and bailey castle in Pleshey in Essex, England. It was built in the 11th century and it is one of the best preserved motte and bailey castles in England.

    3 km · castle in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Leez Priory

    Leez Priory is a 16th-century mansion in Little Leighs, a small parish in the district of Chelmsford in the county of Essex, England. The civil parish boundary between Felsted and Great and Little Leighs crosses the priory, so that it partially lies in Felsted and partially in Great and Little Leighs.

    3.7 km · building in 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.

Go there

Getting to Howe Street

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 18 km · London Luton (LTN), 57 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 73 km
  • London → Howe Street
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Howe Street
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Howe Street
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £19–25
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Howe Street

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 Howe Street. 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

    175 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

    558 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    593 km

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

Around it

Next door to Howe Street

Howe Street is 49 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.