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Little Bromley

Little Bromley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England.

Little Bromley
Little Bromley · Mark Crombie
The place

Little Bromley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. The name "Bromley" is Old English for "broomy wood/clearing". The village lies 9 kilometres (6 mi) east northeast of Colchester and 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of Manningtree. It is surrounded by the parishes of Lawford, Ardleigh, Great Bromley, Little Bentley, and Mistley. Its area is about 7.5 square kilometres. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 255.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Little Bromley

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.

  1. 01
    St 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.

    2.9 km · church in Lawford, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St 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.

    900 m · church in Little Bromley, Tendring, 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.

Go there

Getting to Little Bromley

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 56 km · London Luton (LTN), 97 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 115 km
Stations
Manningtree railway station, 3.5 km
  • London, Essex → Little Bromley
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £10–13
  • London → Little Bromley
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £10–13
  • Luton, Luton → Little Bromley
    60 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
  • 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 Little Bromley

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 Little Bromley. 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

    213 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    306 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    404 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    575 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    609 km

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

Around it

Next door to Little Bromley

  • Manningtreetown and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England3.2 km
  • Great Bromleyvillage in Essex, England, UK2.8 km
  • Little Bentleyvillage and civil parish in the Tendring district, Essex, England3.7 km
  • Mistleyvillage and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England, UK3.9 km
  • Lawfordvillage in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
  • Hare Greenhamlet in Essex, England, United Kingdom3.8 km