Takeley
Takeley is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England.
Takeley is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It lies 4 miles (6 km) east of Bishop's Stortford, its post town, which is over the county boundary in Hertfordshire. The parish includes part of London Stansted Airport within its boundaries.
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Worth seeing in and around Takeley
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.
- 01Portingbury Hills
Portingbury Hills or Portingbury Rings is a hill in Hatfield Forest, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, United Kingdom.
2.9 km · hill in Hatfield Forest, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Barrington Hall
Barrington Hall is a Grade II* listed 18th-century English country house in Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England. Barrington Hall is built in red brick, in both two and three storeys, with a balustraded parapet and a number of ornamentally shaped Dutch gables.
3.8 km · house in Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Hatfield Forest
Hatfield Forest is a 403.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, England, 3 mi east of Bishop's Stortford. It is also a National Nature Reserve and a Nature Conservation Review site.
2.8 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, three miles east of Bishop's Stortford, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Takeley
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 3 km · London Luton (LTN), 44 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km
- Stations
- London Stansted Airport, 2.8 km · Stansted Airport railway station, 2.4 km · Stansted Airport Transit System, 2.4 km · Stane Street Halt railway station, 1.3 km
- Luton, Luton → Takeley47 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £6–8
- London → Takeley48 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £5–7
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Takeley163 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £18–24
- 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 Takeley
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 Takeley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.
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If you know how people move in Takeley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Takeley
Takeley is 45 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Little Canfieldvillage in Essex, England, UK3.1 km
- Molehill Greenhamlet in Takeley, Essex, England, UK1.4 km
- Bedlar's Greenhamlet in Essex, England, UK3.8 km
- Taverners Greenhamlet in Essex, England, UK3.1 km
- Bamber's Greenhamlet in Essex, England, UK2.3 km