South Hanningfield
South Hanningfield is a village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England.
South Hanningfield is a village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England. The village is located on the south bank of the Hanningfield Reservoir, around 6 miles (10 km) south-southeast of the city of Chelmsford, and around 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) north of Wickford. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,692.
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Worth seeing in and around South Hanningfield
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.
- 01Hanningfield 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.
1.3 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to South Hanningfield
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 33 km · London Luton (LTN), 66 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 71 km
- Stations
- Wickford railway station, 3.9 km
- London → South Hanningfield45 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £5–6
- Luton, Luton → South Hanningfield67 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → South Hanningfield188 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £20–27
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No local-transport research exists yet for South Hanningfield
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 South Hanningfield. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Essex (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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South Hanningfield is 45 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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