Lawford
Lawford is a large village and civil parish in the Tendring district of northeast Essex, England.
Lawford is a large village and civil parish in the Tendring district of northeast Essex, England. It is approximately 6 miles (10 km) northeast from the centre of Colchester and west of, and contiguous with, Manningtree. Mistley merges with the east side of Manningtree. Lawford has two junior schools, Lawford Church of England Primary School and Highfields Primary School, situated near Manningtree High School. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 4,790.
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Worth seeing in and around Lawford
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.
- 01St Mary's Church, Lawford
St Mary's Church stands on Church Hill, Lawford, Essex, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Harwich, the archdeaconry of Colchester, and the diocese of Chelmsford.
600 m · church in Lawford, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Mary the Virgin's Church, Little Bromley
St Mary the Virgin's Church is a former Anglican church near the village of Little Bromley, 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.
3.4 km · church in Little Bromley, Tendring, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lawford
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 56 km · London Luton (LTN), 97 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 116 km
- Stations
- Manningtree railway station, 1 km
- London, Essex → Lawford93 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £10–13
- London → Lawford93 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £10–13
- Luton, Luton → Lawford100 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lawford
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 Lawford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundMany National Cycle Routes run off-road and are not suitable for certain bicycle types, e.g.
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If you know how people move in Lawford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Lawford
- Manningtreetown and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England1.2 km
- Mistleyvillage and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England, UK2.5 km
- Little Bromleyvillage in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
- Branthamvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.5 km
- Mistley railway stationstation serving the village of Mistley in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
- Dedham Heathhamlet in Essex, England, UK3.4 km