Lambourne
Lambourne is a civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.

Lambourne is a civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. It is located approximately 4.5 miles (7 km) south of Epping and 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Romford. The small settlement of Lambourne itself comprises just the parish church and a couple of houses. The largest settlement in the parish is the village of Abridge, and the parish also includes the hamlet of Lambourne End. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,051.
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Worth seeing in and around Lambourne
6 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.
- 01Hainault Forest
Hainault Forest was a large wooded area in the English counties of Essex and Greater London which was mostly destroyed after 1851. Popular outrage at the destruction of most of the forest was an important catalyst for the creation of the modern environmental movement.
1.8 km · Country park · Wikipedia - 02Loughton Hall
Loughton Hall is a large house in Rectory Lane, Loughton, Essex. The architect was William Eden Nesfield, and it is grade II listed with Historic England.
3.8 km · house in Loughton, Epping Forest, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Chigwell Row Wood
Chigwell Row Wood is a 14.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Chigwell in Epping Forest district, Essex. It is owned by The Chigwell Row Recreation Ground Charity, of which the district council are the trustees, and managed by council staff and volunteers.
2.7 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
St Mary's Church is a Grade II* listed Church of England church in Chigwell, Essex, England. Its parish was later united with that of All Saints Chigwell Row and then in 1994 with St Winifred's, which had been built in 1935 as a chapel of ease to St Mary's.
3.7 km · church in Chigwell, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Chigwell Hall
Chigwell Hall is a Grade II listed house in Chigwell, Essex. It is situated on Roding Lane within 42 acres of grounds.
4 km · house in Chigwell, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Epping Forest College
New City College is a large college of further education with campuses in east London and Essex. The college was formed in 2016 through the amalgamation of separate colleges, beginning with the merger of Tower Hamlets College and Hackney Community College.
3.9 km · further education college in Loughton, Essex, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lambourne
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 28 km · London Luton (LTN), 43 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 45 km
- Stations
- Debden tube station, 3.3 km · Grange Hill tube station, 3.8 km · Stapleford Aerodrome, 2.4 km
- London → Lambourne23 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £2.5–3.5
- Luton, Luton → Lambourne46 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £5–7
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Lambourne10 km · quickest by road, 37 min · £1–1.5
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No local-transport research exists yet for Lambourne
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 Lambourne. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inUse Woolwich Ferry then for destinations in south London.
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Next door to Lambourne
Lambourne is 20 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Abridgevillage in Essex, England, UK1.8 km
- Theydon Garnonvillage in Essex, England, UK3.8 km
- Stapleford Abbottsvillage and civil parish in the district of Epping Forest, Essex, England, UK2.3 km
- Chigwell Rowvillage in Essex, United Kingdom2 km
- Hobbs Crosshamlet in Theydon Garnon, Epping Forest, Essex, England3.7 km
- Debdensuburb in Loughton, Epping Forest, Essex, England, UK3.3 km