Mistley
Mistley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of northeast Essex, England.
Mistley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of northeast Essex, England. It is around 11 miles northeast of Colchester and is east of, and almost contiguous with, Manningtree. The parish consists of Mistley and New Mistley, both lying beside the Stour Estuary, Mistley Heath, about a mile to the south, and Horsley Cross at the southern end of the parish. The village is in the parliamentary constituency of Harwich and North Essex. The village has its own parish council. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,956.
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Worth seeing in and around Mistley
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.
- 01St 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
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Getting to Mistley
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 58 km · London Luton (LTN), 100 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 119 km
- Stations
- Manningtree railway station, 2.5 km
- London, Essex → Mistley96 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £10–13
- London → Mistley96 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £10–13
- Luton, Luton → Mistley103 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £14–18
- 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 Mistley
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 Mistley. 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 Mistley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Mistley
- Manningtreetown and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England1.3 km
- Little Bromleyvillage in Essex, England, UK3.9 km
- Bradfieldvillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom3.2 km
- Lawfordvillage in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
- Branthamvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3 km
- Bradfield Heathvillage in Essex, United Kingdom3.8 km