Layer de la Haye
Layer de la Haye, sometimes hyphenated as Layer-de-la-Haye, is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England.
Layer de la Haye, sometimes hyphenated as Layer-de-la-Haye, is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It is the largest and easternmost of the three neighbouring parishes called Layer, the others being Layer Breton and Layer Marney. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 1,767.
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Worth seeing in and around Layer de la Haye
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.
- 01Abberton 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.
2.6 km · reservoir in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Colchester Zoo
Colchester Zoo is a zoological garden situated near Colchester, England. Open since June 1963, the zoo is home to many rare and endangered species, including big cats, primates and birds as well as many invertebrates and fish species.
2.8 km · zoological garden situated in Colchester, England · Wikipedia - 03Roman 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.
2.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 04St 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 km · church in Colchester, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Layer de la Haye
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 43 km · London Luton (LTN), 84 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 100 km
- London, Essex → Layer de la Haye77 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £8–11
- London → Layer de la Haye77 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Layer de la Haye88 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £12–16
- 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 Layer de la Haye
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 Layer de la Haye. 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 Layer de la Haye – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Layer de la Haye
- Abbertonvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.8 km
- Birchvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
- Layer Bretonvillage in Essex, England, UK2.9 km
- Berechurchvillage in Essex, England4 km
- Heckfordbridgehamlet in Essex, England, UK3 km
- Abbey Fieldsuburb in Colchester, Essex, England, UK3.7 km