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

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.
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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.
- 01Cressing 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 - 02Parish 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 - 03The 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 - 04Brockwell 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 - 05Braxted 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 - 06Fillol'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
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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 → Rivenhall64 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Rivenhall74 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–14
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rivenhall34 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £4–5
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.
- Get aroundBus services are provided by three minibuses circling around the various estates.
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- Faulkbournehamlet and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.9 km
- Rivenhall Endvillage in Essex, UK1.8 km
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