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Ramsden Heath

Ramsden Heath is a village in Essex in the east of England.

The place

Ramsden Heath is a village in Essex in the east of England. It is located approximately 8 mi (13 km) south of the county town of Chelmsford; the closest towns are Billericay, approximately 3 mi (4.8 km) west-south-west, and Wickford, approximately 3.5 mi (5.6 km) south-east. The village is close to Hanningfield Reservoir and the smaller village of Downham lies immediately to the east.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ramsden Heath

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.

  1. 01
    Hanningfield Reservoir

    Hanningfield Reservoir is a large 25,500-million-litre pumped storage reservoir located between Billericay and Chelmsford in Essex. It has a surface area of 352 hectares and is owned and operated by Essex and Suffolk Water.

    3.3 km · lake in the 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 Ramsden Heath

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 32 km · London Luton (LTN), 64 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km
Stations
Billericay railway station, 3.8 km
  • London → Ramsden Heath
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £5–6
  • Luton, Luton → Ramsden Heath
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ramsden Heath
    187 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £20–27
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ramsden Heath

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Essex (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    163 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    356 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    360 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    573 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    608 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ramsden Heath

Ramsden Heath is 41 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Billericaytown in the Borough of Basildon, Essex, England3.8 km
  • Stockvillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Ramsden Bellhousevillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom1.7 km
  • South Hanningfieldvillage and civil parish in Essex, UK3.5 km
  • Crays Hillvillage in Essex, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Downhamvillage in Essex, England, UK1.3 km