Peldon
Peldon is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England.
Peldon is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It shares a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parishes of Great and Little Wigborough, Salcott, and Virley, called the Winstred Hundred parish council. Nearby villages include Langenhoe. The parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and is a Grade I listed building. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 568.
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Worth seeing in and around Peldon
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.
- 01Abberton Reservoir
Abberton Reservoir is a pumped storage freshwater reservoir in eastern England near the Essex coast, with an area of 700 hectares. Most of its water is pumped from the River Stour.
2 km · reservoir in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Peldon
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 45 km · London Luton (LTN), 86 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 100 km
- London, Essex → Peldon78 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–12
- London → Peldon78 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Peldon90 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £12–16
- 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 Peldon
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 Peldon. 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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Next door to Peldon
- Abbertonvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3 km
- Layer de la Hayevillage in Essex, England, UK3.9 km
- Langenhoevillage in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
- Great and Little Wigboroughcivil parish in Colchester, Essex, England3.3 km
- Great Wigboroughvillage in Essex, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Little Wigboroughvillage in Essex, United Kingdom1.9 km