Stambourne
Stambourne is a village and civil parish in the Braintree District in north Essex, England.

Stambourne is a village and civil parish in the Braintree District in north Essex, England. It lies 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Halstead, its post town. Stambourne's closest neighbouring villages are Ridgewell, Toppesfield, Cornish Hall End and Great Yeldham. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 421.
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Worth seeing in and around Stambourne
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.
- 01Moyns Park
Moyns Park is a Grade I listed country house in Steeple Bumpstead, Essex.
3.4 km · Grade I listed country house in Steeple Bumpstead, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stambourne
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 24 km · London Luton (LTN), 62 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 90 km
- Stations
- Birdbrook railway station, 3.4 km · Yeldham railway station, 3.7 km
- Luton, Luton → Stambourne64 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £8–11
- London → Stambourne71 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £8–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Stambourne34 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £4–5
- 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 Stambourne
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 Stambourne. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe complete route requires ferry crossings, and follows a mix of on- and off-road paths and terrains.
From Wikivoyage: Long Melford, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Stambourne – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Stambourne
- Great Yeldhamvillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom3.6 km
- Ridgewellvillage in Essex, England, UK2.3 km
- Toppesfieldvillage in Essex, England, UK2.1 km
- Birdbrookvillage in Essex, England, UK3 km
- Stambourne Greenhamlet in Essex, England, UK2.2 km
- Gainsford Endhamlet in Essex, England, UK3.2 km