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Mountnessing

Mountnessing is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Brentwood in Essex, England.

Mountnessing
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The place

Mountnessing is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Brentwood in Essex, England. It is situated to the north-east of Brentwood and south-west of Ingatestone. The main part of the village lies along the Roman Road between Brentwood and Ingatestone, which was formerly the A12 until the village was bypassed in the 1970s. The village is approximately equidistant between the two closest railway stations at Shenfield and Ingatestone. Its main attraction is Mountnessing Windmill. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,437.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mountnessing

5 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
    Ingatestone Hall

    Ingatestone Hall is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Essex, England. It is located outside the village of Ingatestone, approximately 5 miles south west of Chelmsford and 25 miles north east of London.

    2.5 km · country house in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Edmund and St Mary, Ingatestone

    St Edmund and St Mary's Church is the Church of England parish church in the village of Ingatestone in Essex. It dates to the 11th century and received major modifications in the 17th century.

    2.7 km · Grade I listed church in Ingatestone, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hutton Country Park

    Hutton Country Park is a 37.4 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Brentwood in Essex. It is owned and managed by Brentwood Borough Council.

    2 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's is a Grade II* listed parish church in the village of Buttsbury, approximately 1.5 miles north west of Ingatestone and 3.8 miles south east of Billericay in Essex, England. The present building dates from the 14th century, but St Mary's Church was mentioned in 1170, and the site is believed to have been where St Botolph preached under a pear tree in the 7th century.

    3.4 km · church in Buttsbury, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Giles

    St. Giles' Church is the parish church of Mountnessing, Essex, located about one and a half miles southeast of the village.

    2.1 km · church in Mountnessing, Essex, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mountnessing

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 27 km · London Luton (LTN), 56 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 60 km
Stations
Shenfield railway station, 3.2 km · Ingatestone railway station, 2.3 km
  • London → Mountnessing
    38 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £4–5
  • Luton, Luton → Mountnessing
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Mountnessing
    180 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £19–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mountnessing

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 Mountnessing. 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

    158 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    353 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    361 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    567 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    602 km

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Around it

Next door to Mountnessing

Mountnessing is 34 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.