Layer Marney
Layer Marney is a village and civil parish in the Colchester district of Essex, England, near Tiptree.
Layer Marney is a village and civil parish in the Colchester district of Essex, England, near Tiptree. The parish includes the hamlet of Smythe's Green. Layer Marney has a Tudor palace called Layer Marney Tower and the Church of St Mary the Virgin. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 230. Layer Marney is the westernmost and least populous of the three neighbouring parishes called Layer, the others being Layer Breton and Layer-de-la-Haye.
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Worth seeing in and around Layer Marney
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.
- 01Layer Marney Tower
Layer Marney Tower is an incomplete early Tudor country house, with gardens and parkland, dating from about 1523, in Layer Marney, Essex, England, between Colchester and Maldon. The building was designated Grade I listed in 1952.
0 m · Grade I listed country house in Layer Marney, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary the Virgin, Layer Marney
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglican church in the village of Layer Marney, in Essex, England, and in the Diocese of Chelmsford. The building dates from the early 16th century, and is Grade I listed.
100 m · church in Layer Marney, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Layer Marney
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 39 km · London Luton (LTN), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 95 km
- Stations
- Tiptree railway station, 3.6 km · Tolleshunt Knights railway station, 3.2 km
- London → Layer Marney72 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £8–10
- Luton, Luton → Layer Marney83 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–15
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Layer Marney182 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · £21–28
- 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 Marney
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 Marney. 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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Next door to Layer Marney
- Tolleshunt Knightsvillage in Essex, England, UK3.2 km
- Tiptreevillage in Essex, England, UK3.5 km
- Birchvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3 km
- Layer Bretonvillage in Essex, England, UK1.8 km
- Easthorpevillage in Essex, United Kingdom3.5 km
- Messingvillage in Essex, England, UK3.5 km