Pleshey
Pleshey is a historic village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England, 6 miles (10 km) north-west of Chelmsford itself.
Pleshey is a historic village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England, 6 miles (10 km) north-west of Chelmsford itself. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 307.
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Worth seeing in and around Pleshey
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.
- 01Pleshey Castle and town enclosure
Pleshey Castle is a man-made motte and bailey castle in Pleshey in Essex, England. It was built in the 11th century and it is one of the best preserved motte and bailey castles in England.
200 m · castle in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Pleshey
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 15 km · London Luton (LTN), 54 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 71 km
- London → Pleshey50 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Pleshey58 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Pleshey175 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £20–26
- 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 Pleshey
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 Pleshey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt is served by Stena Line ferries from Hook of Holland (), near The Hague and Rotterdam.
- Get inAt Harwich, Harwich International railway station is attached to the ferry terminal.
- Get inis served by the Harwich Harbour Ferry during summer months, direct from Shotley and Felixstowe, both in Suffolk.
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Next door to Pleshey
Pleshey is 46 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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