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Mucking

Mucking is a hamlet on the north bank of Thames Estuary in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England.

Mucking
Mucking · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Mucking is a hamlet on the north bank of Thames Estuary in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. It is located approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of the town of Stanford-le-Hope. Mucking was formerly a parish. The civil parish was abolished in 1936 on the creation of Thurrock Urban District, which became the modern borough of Thurrock in 1974.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mucking

3 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
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary the Virgin Church is a Church of England parish church in the town of Corringham, Essex, England. Dating from the 11th century, it is a Grade I listed building.

    3.3 km · historic church in Corringham, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mucking Flats and Marshes

    Mucking Flats and Marshes is a 311.6 biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Tilbury in Essex. It is part of the Thames Estuary and Marshes Ramsar site.

    1.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Grove House Wood

    Grove House Wood is a 2.2 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Stanford-le-Hope in Essex. According to Natural England, it is owned by Thurrock Council and managed by Essex Wildlife Trust but it is not listed on the web site of either body.

    700 m · park in United Kingdom · 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 Mucking

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 44 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 58 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 62 km
Stations
Stanford-le-Hope railway station, 1.1 km · East Tilbury railway station, 2.3 km · Low Street railway station, 3.9 km
  • London → Mucking
    38 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £4–5
  • London, Essex → Mucking
    38 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £4–5
  • Luton, Luton → Mucking
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mucking

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 Mucking. 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

    151 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    356 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    366 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    583 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    618 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mucking

Mucking is 37 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.