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Roxwell

Roxwell is a village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England.

The place

Roxwell is a village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England. The village is approximately 4 miles (6 km) west from the centre of the county town of Chelmsford, and to the south of the A1060 road, on which are the parish hamlets of Boyton Cross and Chalk End. Further Roxwell hamlets are Peppers Green at the north of the parish and Radley Green at the south. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,107.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Roxwell

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.

  1. 01
    Writtle College

    Writtle University College was a university college located in Writtle near Chelmsford, Essex. It was founded in 1893 and obtained University College status in May 2016.

    1.8 km · university in Essex, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Newney Green Pit

    Newney Green Pit is a 0.07-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Writtle in Essex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    2.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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.

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Getting to Roxwell

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 19 km · London Luton (LTN), 55 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km
  • London → Roxwell
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £4.5–6
  • Luton, Luton → Roxwell
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Roxwell
    175 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £20–27
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Roxwell

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 Roxwell. 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

    167 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    353 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    357 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    561 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    596 km

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

Around it

Next door to Roxwell

Roxwell is 42 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Writtlevillage and suburb of Chelmsford, Essex, England2.4 km
  • Mashburyvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.7 km
  • Chignallcivil parish and suburb of Chelmsford, Essex, England,2.3 km
  • Chignall St Jamesvillage in Essex, England, UK1.8 km
  • Chignall Smealyvillage in Essex, England, UK3.5 km
  • Boyton Crosshamlet in Essex, England, UK1.7 km