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Pilgrims Hatch

Pilgrims Hatch is a residential suburb of Brentwood, Essex, in the east of England.

Pilgrims Hatch
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The place

Pilgrims Hatch is a residential suburb of Brentwood, Essex, in the east of England. There is a borough council ward bearing the name 'Pilgrims Hatch' which covers the Bishops Hall and Flower estates and a small rural area to the north up to Ashwells Road and Days Lane. Pilgrims Hatch usually elects Liberal Democrat councillors. It has a population of around 6,000 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pilgrims Hatch

8 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
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Brentwood

    The Diocese of Brentwood is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic church in England. The diocese is a suffragan of the Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster, and covers the historic county of Essex.

    2.1 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brentwood Cathedral

    The Cathedral of St Mary and St Helen is a Catholic cathedral in Brentwood, Essex, England. It is the seat of the Diocese of Brentwood.

    2.1 km · Roman Catholic cathedral in Brentwood, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of All Saints

    The Church of All Saints is a Church of England parish church in Doddinghurst, Essex. The church is a Grade I listed building.

    3.5 km · church in Doddinghurst, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Weald Country Park

    Weald Country Park is a 700-year-old, 500 acre country park in South Weald in the borough of Brentwood in the English county of Essex. It is on the north-east fringe of Greater London.

    2 km · park north-west of Brentwood, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Brentwood Town Hall

    Brentwood Town Hall is a municipal building in Ingrave Road, Brentwood, Essex, England which serves as the headquarters of Brentwood Borough Council.

    2.3 km · town hall in Brentwood, Essex, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Coppice, Kelvedon Hatch

    The Coppice, Kelvedon Hatch is a 9.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Kelvedon Hatch in Essex. The site is an ancient semi-natural wood in the valley of a small tributary of the River Roding.

    4 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    New Church of St Nicholas

    St Nicholas Church is the Church of England parish church in the Essex village of Kelvedon Hatch. It was first recorded around 1254, when the rectory of the church of Lever was valued at 6 marks, rising to 10 marks in 1291 and £12 in 1535.

    3.9 km · church in Kelvedon Hatch, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Thorndon Park

    Thorndon Park is a 141.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Brentwood in Essex. Part of it is run by Essex County Council as Thorndon Country Park, and the Essex Wildlife Trust manages its visitor centre.

    3.8 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in England · 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 Pilgrims Hatch

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 28 km · London Luton (LTN), 53 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 55 km
Stations
Shenfield railway station, 2.7 km · Brentwood railway station, 2.6 km
  • London → Pilgrims Hatch
    32 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £3.5–4.5
  • Luton, Luton → Pilgrims Hatch
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Pilgrims Hatch
    176 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pilgrims Hatch

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inUse Woolwich Ferry then for destinations in south London.

From Wikivoyage: London/East, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    153 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    348 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    366 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    566 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    601 km

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Around it

Next door to Pilgrims Hatch

Pilgrims Hatch is 29 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.