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Littlebury

Littlebury is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district, north-west Essex, England.

Littlebury
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The place

Littlebury is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district, north-west Essex, England. The village is approximately a mile and a half from the market town of Saffron Walden, 12 miles (20 km) south from Cambridge, the nearest city, and 23 miles (37 km) north-east from the county town and city of Chelmsford.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Littlebury

10 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
    Saffron Walden

    Saffron Walden is a market town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, 12 miles north of Bishop's Stortford, 15 miles south of Cambridge and 43 miles north of London. It retains a rural appearance and some buildings of the medieval period.

    2.1 km · market town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Audley End House

    Audley End House, or Audley End, is an early 17th-century English country house near to Saffron Walden in north-west Essex. The Jacobean house was built by Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, on the site of a Benedictine monastery that had been awarded to his grandfather, chancellor Thomas Audley, during the dissolution of the monasteries.

    1.4 km · country house in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary the Virgin

    St Mary the Virgin is the parish church of Saffron Walden, Essex. It is the largest non-cathedral church in Essex with an overall length of 183 feet and a spire 193 feet high, which is the tallest in Essex.

    1.8 km · church building in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Saffron Walden Museum

    Saffron Walden Museum is a local museum in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. Established in 1835 by the Saffron Walden Natural History Society, with collections assembled from 1832 by local benefactors including Jabez Gibson and Lord Braybrooke of Audley End, it was built as a purpose-designed museum, making it one of the oldest purpose-built museums in the United Kingdom.

    1.9 km · museum in Essex, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Fry Art Gallery

    The Fry Art Gallery is an art gallery in Saffron Walden, Essex. Recognised as an Accredited Museum by Arts Council England, it displays work by artists of national significance who lived or worked in North West Essex during the twentieth century and after.

    1.7 km · art gallery in Saffron Walden, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Peter's, Littlebury Green

    St Peter's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Littlebury Green, near Saffron Walden in Essex, England. It is in the Diocese of Chelmsford and one of the Cam Village Churches.

    3.3 km · church in Littlebury Green, Essex, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bridge End Gardens

    Bridge End Gardens is a group of linked ornamental gardens in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. The gardens are listed Grade II* on the Register of Parks and Gardens.

    1.5 km · garden in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Barclays Bank

    Barclays Bank, Market Place, Saffron Walden, Essex, England has been designated a Grade II* listed building by Historic England. It was first listed in 1972.

    2 km · Grade II* listed building in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Town Hall

    Saffron Walden Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place, Saffron Walden, Essex, England. The structure, which is the headquarters of Saffron Walden Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    2 km · town hall in Saffron Walden, Uttlesford, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Saffron Walden Corn Exchange

    The Corn Exchange is a commercial building in the Market Place in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. The structure, which is currently used as a library, is a Grade II listed building.

    1.9 km · part of Saffron Walden Library, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Littlebury

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 17 km · London Luton (LTN), 44 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 78 km
Stations
Audley End railway station, 3.2 km · Great Chesterford railway station, 3.4 km · Acrow Halt railway station, 3.3 km
  • Luton, Luton → Littlebury
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £5–7
  • London → Littlebury
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Littlebury
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Littlebury

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 Littlebury. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    183 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    350 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    351 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    528 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    563 km

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

Around it

Next door to Littlebury

Littlebury is 59 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.