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Rivenhall

Rivenhall is a village and civil parish near Witham in the Braintree district of Essex, England.

Rivenhall
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The place

Rivenhall is a village and civil parish near Witham in the Braintree district of Essex, England. As well as the small village of Rivenhall itself, the parish also includes Rivenhall End and surrounding rural areas. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 757.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rivenhall

6 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
    Cressing Temple

    Cressing Temple is a medieval site situated between Witham and Braintree in Essex, close to the villages of Cressing and White Notley. It was amongst the very earliest and largest of the possessions of the Knights Templar in England, and is currently open to the public as a visitor attraction.

    3.9 km · ancient monument situated between Witham and Braintree in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Parish Church of St Mary, Kelvedon

    St Mary the Virgin Church is the Church of England parish church for Kelvedon in Essex. It stands at the south-west end of the village.

    1.8 km · Grade I listed parish church in Kelvedon, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Barley Barn

    The Barley Barn is an architecturally important medieval barn, part of a complex of farm buildings at Cressing Temple, Essex, England. The barn was built for the Knights Templar in the early thirteenth century.

    4 km · barn at Cressing Temple in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Brockwell Meadows

    Brockwell Meadows is a 4.3 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Kelvedon in Essex. It is owned by Kelevdon Parish Council and managed by the Council together with a group of local residents called the Brockwell Group.

    2.7 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Braxted Park

    Braxted Park, formerly called Braxted Lodge, is a country house in the Queen Anne style set in a landscaped 2,000 acre park near the village of Great Braxted, Essex. In the Domesday Book of 1086, Eudo Dapifer is shown as owner of the manor.

    3.4 km · 17th century house near Witham, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Fillol's Hall

    Fillol's Hall or Felix Hall, Kelvedon, Essex was an English manor house. It belonged to the Fillol family, which included Catherine Fillol, Duchess of Somerset, the first wife of the future Lord Protector of England Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, uncle of King Edward VI. In the mid eighteenth century the Hall was acquired by the plantation owner Daniel Mathew and sold after his death.

    1.4 km · Bygone manor house of Essex, 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.

Go there

Getting to Rivenhall

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 30 km · London Luton (LTN), 71 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 88 km
Stations
Kelvedon railway station, 2.6 km · Witham railway station, 3.6 km · Feering Halt railway station, 3.3 km · Kelvedon Low Level railway station, 2.8 km
  • London → Rivenhall
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Rivenhall
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–14
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rivenhall
    34 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £4–5
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rivenhall

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundBus services are provided by three minibuses circling around the various estates.

From Wikivoyage: Witham, 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

    187 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    333 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    376 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    565 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    599 km

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

Around it

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