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Lambourne

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

Lambourne
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Hainault 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
  2. 02
    Loughton 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
  3. 03
    Chigwell 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
  4. 04
    Parish 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
  5. 05
    Chigwell 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
  6. 06
    Epping 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

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 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 → Lambourne
    23 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £2.5–3.5
  • Luton, Luton → Lambourne
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Lambourne
    10 km · quickest by road, 37 min · £1–1.5
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inUse Woolwich Ferry then for destinations in south London.

From Wikivoyage: London/East, 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

    145 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    337 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    376 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    559 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    594 km

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

Around it

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