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Tiptree

Tiptree is a large village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England.

Tiptree
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Layer 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
  2. 02
    Church 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
  3. 03
    Prested 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

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.

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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 → Tiptree
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £7–10
  • Luton, Luton → Tiptree
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £11–14
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Tiptree
    181 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · £21–27
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundBus services are provided by three minibuses circling around the various estates.

From Wikivoyage: Witham, 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

    190 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    329 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    382 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    570 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    605 km

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

Around it

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