Tiptree
Tiptree is a large village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England.
Tiptree is a large village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It is situated 10 miles (16 km) south-west of Colchester and around 50 miles (80 km) north-east of London. Surrounding villages include Messing, Tolleshunt Knights, Tolleshunt Major, Layer Marney, Inworth, Birch, Great Braxted, Great Totham and Little Totham. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 9,628 and the built up area had a population of 9,300.
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Worth seeing in and around Tiptree
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.
- 01Layer Marney Tower
Layer Marney Tower is an incomplete early Tudor country house, with gardens and parkland, dating from about 1523, in Layer Marney, Essex, England, between Colchester and Maldon. The building was designated Grade I listed in 1952.
3.5 km · Grade I listed country house in Layer Marney, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary the Virgin, Layer Marney
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglican church in the village of Layer Marney, in Essex, England, and in the Diocese of Chelmsford. The building dates from the early 16th century, and is Grade I listed.
3.5 km · church in Layer Marney, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Prested Hall
Prested Hall is a country house in Feering, Essex. It was built in the fourteenth century for the Weston family and passed through several notable families over the next six hundred years.
3.9 km · country house hotel in Feering, Braintree, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tiptree
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 36 km · London Luton (LTN), 77 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 92 km
- Stations
- Tiptree railway station, 300 m · Tolleshunt Knights railway station, 1.3 km · Inworth railway station, 2.4 km
- London → Tiptree69 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £7–10
- Luton, Luton → Tiptree80 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £11–14
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Tiptree181 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · £21–27
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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 Tiptree
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 Tiptree. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundBus services are provided by three minibuses circling around the various estates.
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Next door to Tiptree
- Tolleshunt Knightsvillage in Essex, England, UK1.2 km
- Great Braxtedvillage in Essex, England3.8 km
- Layer Marneyvillage in Essex, England, UK3.5 km
- Messing-cum-InworthCivil parish in Essex2.5 km
- Messingvillage in Essex, England, UK3 km
- Inworthvillage in Essex, England, UK3.2 km