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Stambourne

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

Stambourne
Stambourne · Felix O
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Moyns 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

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.

Go there

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 → Stambourne
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £8–11
  • London → Stambourne
    71 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Stambourne
    34 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £4–5
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    194 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    332 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    370 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    542 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    576 km

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

Around it

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