Village in Essex, England

Ardleigh

Ardleigh is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England.

Plan a trip to Ardleigh→From London, Essex

Every way there

London, Essex → Ardleigh
90 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £9–12
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London → Ardleigh
90 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £9–12
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Luton, Luton → Ardleigh
96 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £13–17
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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.

The field note

What is in and around Ardleigh, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Ardleigh has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 52 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesWivenhoe Fingringhoe Rowhedge Ferry, 8 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Colchester, 7 km.

51.927°, 0.983°

It is situated approximately 4 miles (6 km) northeast from the centre of Colchester and 26 miles (42 km) northeast from the county town of Chelmsford. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,758.

How locals move

Getting around Ardleigh the local way

Get aroundMany National Cycle Routes run off-road and are not suitable for certain bicycle types, e.g.

From Wikivoyage: Colchester, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Acabashi (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.