Rettendon
Rettendon is a village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England.
Rettendon is a village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England. It lies about 8 miles (13 km) south-east of the city of Chelmsford. There are two main built up parts of Rettendon, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) apart, sometimes distinguished as Rettendon Common to the north and Rettendon Place to the south. The parish church, village school and village hall are at Rettendon Place.
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Worth seeing in and around Rettendon
2 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.
- 01RHS Garden, Hyde Hall
RHS Garden Hyde Hall is a public display garden run by the Royal Horticultural Society, located near Chelmsford in the English county of Essex. It is one of five public gardens run by the society, alongside Wisley in Surrey, Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire, Rosemoor in Devon, and Bridgewater in Greater Manchester.
2.2 km · public garden in Essex, England · Wikipedia - 02Hanningfield 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.
3.2 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rettendon
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 34 km · London Luton (LTN), 68 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 73 km
- Stations
- Battlesbridge railway station, 3.5 km · South Woodham Ferrers railway station, 4 km
- London → Rettendon50 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Rettendon72 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–12
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Rettendon192 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · £21–28
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rettendon
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 Rettendon. 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 Rettendon
Rettendon is 47 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- East Hanningfieldvillage in Essex, England, UK3.4 km
- South Hanningfieldvillage and civil parish in Essex, UK2.2 km
- West Hanningfieldvillage in Essex, England, UK4 km
- Woodham Ferrersvillage in Essex, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Runwellvillage and civil parish in Essex, UK3.4 km
- Battlesbridgevillage in Essex, UK3.8 km