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Twinstead

Twinstead is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England.

The place

Twinstead is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 154. Twinstead shares a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parishes of Great Henny, Little Henny, and Middleton, called The Hennys, Middleton and Twinstead Parish Council.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Twinstead

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
    Church of the Holy Innocents

    Holy Innocents Church is an Anglican church in the village of Lamarsh, in Essex, England. The building has a round tower and dates from the 12th century.

    2.8 km · church in Lamarsh, 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 Twinstead

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 35 km · London Luton (LTN), 75 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 100 km
  • London → Twinstead
    79 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Twinstead
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Twinstead
    165 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £19–25
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Twinstead

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 Twinstead. 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

    202 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    321 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    383 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    553 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    587 km

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

Around it

Next door to Twinstead

  • Great Hennyvillage in Essex, England, UK1.2 km
  • Pebmarshvillage in Essex, England, UK3.4 km
  • Middletonvillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Lamarshvillage and civil parish in Essex, England3 km
  • Bulmervillage and civil parish in Essex, UK3.9 km
  • Alphamstonevillage in Essex, England, UK2.4 km