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Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre

Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre is a civil parish in the Chelmsford district in Essex, England.

The place

Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre is a civil parish in the Chelmsford district in Essex, England. The parish includes the villages of Bicknacre and Woodham Ferrers. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,922. The parish adopted its modern name in 1987 when the old parish of Woodham Ferrers was split; the southern part became a separate parish called South Woodham Ferrers and the remainder was renamed Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre after its two main settlements.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre

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.

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    RHS Garden, Hyde Hall

    RHS Garden Hyde Hall is a public display garden run by the Royal Horticultural Society, located near Chelmsford in the English county of Essex. It is one of five public gardens run by the society, alongside Wisley in Surrey, Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire, Rosemoor in Devon, and Bridgewater in Greater Manchester.

    1.9 km · public garden in Essex, England · 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 Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 34 km · London Luton (LTN), 70 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 76 km
Stations
South Woodham Ferrers railway station, 3.4 km
  • London → Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre
    192 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £21–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre

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 Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt is served by Stena Line ferries from Hook of Holland (), near The Hague and Rotterdam.
  • Get inAt Harwich, Harwich International railway station is attached to the ferry terminal.
  • Get inis served by the Harwich Harbour Ferry during summer months, direct from Shotley and Felixstowe, both in Suffolk.

From Wikivoyage: Essex (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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    Isle of WightGB

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    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

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  5. 05
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    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

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Around it

Next door to Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre

Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre is 51 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.