Wickford
Wickford is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Basildon of Essex, England.
Wickford is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Basildon of Essex, England. It is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) east of London and 4 miles (6 km) north-east of Basildon. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 27,601 and the built-up area, as defined by the Office for National Statistics, was 27,535.
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Worth seeing in and around Wickford
2 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.
- 01Hanningfield Reservoir
Hanningfield Reservoir is a large 25,500-million-litre pumped storage reservoir located between Billericay and Chelmsford in Essex. It has a surface area of 352 hectares and is owned and operated by Essex and Suffolk Water.
5.3 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Northlands Park, Basildon
Northlands Park is a park in Basildon, Essex, England.
4.1 km · park in Basildon · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wickford
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 36 km · London Luton (LTN), 68 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 70 km
- Stations
- Battlesbridge railway station, 3.5 km · Wickford railway station, 400 m · Pitsea railway station, 5.8 km
- London → Wickford46 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £5–7
- Luton, Luton → Wickford71 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Wickford192 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £21–27
- 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 Wickford
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 Wickford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundVineyard Fast Ferry, , Terminal at Quonset Point, very close to Wickford.
From Wikivoyage: Wickford (Rhode Island), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Wickford
Wickford is 44 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Basildontown in Essex, England, UK4.5 km
- Rettendonvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK5.2 km
- Ramsden Bellhousevillage and civil parish in Essex, United Kingdom2.9 km
- South Hanningfieldvillage and civil parish in Essex, UK4.3 km
- Pitseatown in Essex, England4.9 km
- Rawrethvillage and civil parish in Essex, UK3.6 km