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Mashbury

Mashbury is a small village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England.

The place

Mashbury is a small village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England. It lies 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Chelmsford. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 98.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mashbury

One place 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
    Pleshey Castle and town enclosure

    Pleshey Castle is a man-made motte and bailey castle in Pleshey in Essex, England. It was built in the 11th century and it is one of the best preserved motte and bailey castles in England.

    3.1 km · castle in 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.

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Getting to Mashbury

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 16 km · London Luton (LTN), 53 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 68 km
  • London → Mashbury
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £6–7
  • Luton, Luton → Mashbury
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Mashbury
    175 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £20–26
  • 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 Mashbury

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt is served by Stena Line ferries from Hook of Holland (), near The Hague and Rotterdam.
  • Get inAt Harwich, Harwich International railway station is attached to the ferry terminal.
  • Get inis served by the Harwich Harbour Ferry during summer months, direct from Shotley and Felixstowe, both in Suffolk.

From Wikivoyage: Essex (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    169 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    352 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    357 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    557 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    592 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mashbury

Mashbury is 44 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Roxwellvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.4 km
  • Plesheyvillage in Essex, England, UK3.1 km
  • High Eastervillage in Essex, England, UK3.6 km
  • Good Eastervillage in Essex, England, UK1.8 km
  • Chignallcivil parish and suburb of Chelmsford, Essex, England,2.7 km
  • Chignall St Jamesvillage in Essex, England, UK2.6 km