South Woodham Ferrers
South Woodham Ferrers is a town and civil parish in the City of Chelmsford district of Essex, England.
South Woodham Ferrers is a town and civil parish in the City of Chelmsford district of Essex, England. It is approximately 35 miles (56 km) east of London and 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Chelmsford. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 16,026.
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Worth seeing in and around South Woodham Ferrers
3 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.
3 km · public garden in Essex, England · Wikipedia - 02Fenn Washland
Fenn Washland is a 4.9 hectare Local Nature Reserve in South Woodham Ferrers in Essex, England. It is owned by Essex County Council and managed by the council as a part of the nearby Marsh Farm Country Park.
1.5 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Kendal Park
Kendal Park or Hullbridge Foreshore is a 2.8 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Hullbridge in Essex. It is owned by Rochford District Council and managed by Hullbridge Parish Council.
2.5 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to South Woodham Ferrers
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 37 km · London Luton (LTN), 72 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 77 km
- Stations
- Battlesbridge railway station, 4.3 km · North Fambridge railway station, 4.8 km · South Woodham Ferrers railway station, 400 m · Cold Norton railway station, 4.8 km · Barons Lane Halt railway station, 5.9 km
- London → South Woodham Ferrers54 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → South Woodham Ferrers76 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £10–13
- Birmingham, West Midlands → South Woodham Ferrers196 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £22–29
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for South Woodham Ferrers
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 Woodham Ferrers. 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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South Woodham Ferrers is 51 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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