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Langenhoe

Langenhoe is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England, located south of Colchester.

The place

Langenhoe is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England, located south of Colchester. It shares a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parish of Abberton. The parish boundary between Abberton and Langenhoe follows Mersea Road. The two villages now form a single built up area, which the Office for National Statistics calls "Langenhoe and Abberton". At the 2021 census Langenhoe parish had a population of 566, and the Langenhoe and Abberton built up area had a population of 1,015.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Langenhoe

4 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
    Abberton Reservoir

    Abberton Reservoir is a pumped storage freshwater reservoir in eastern England near the Essex coast, with an area of 700 hectares. Most of its water is pumped from the River Stour.

    3.9 km · reservoir in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Upper Colne Marshes

    Upper Colne Marshes is a 114.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south and west of Wivenhoe in Essex. It lies along stretches of the River Colne and Roman River.

    4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Roman River SSSI

    Roman River is a 275.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Colchester in Essex. Two areas, Friday Wood and Donyland Wood, were formerly separate SSSIs.

    1.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Michael's Church, Berechurch

    St Michael's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Berechurch, Essex, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.2 km · church in Colchester, 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 Langenhoe

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 47 km · London Luton (LTN), 88 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 103 km
Stations
Wivenhoe railway station, 4 km
  • London, Essex → Langenhoe
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £9–12
  • London → Langenhoe
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Langenhoe
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Langenhoe

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 Langenhoe. 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

    200 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    318 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    393 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    576 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    610 km

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

Around it

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