Village in Essex, England

Castle Hedingham

Castle Hedingham is a village and civil parish in northern Essex, England, located four miles west of Halstead and 3 miles southeast of Great Yeldham in the Colne Valley on the ancient road from Colchester, Essex, to Cambridge.

Plan a trip to Castle Hedingham→From Luton, Luton

Every way there

Luton, Luton → Castle Hedingham
71 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £9–12
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London → Castle Hedingham
73 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Castle Hedingham
160 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £18–24
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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 Castle Hedingham, 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 Castle Hedingham has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 28 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
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: Braintree, 13 km.

51.991°, 0.604°

At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,186.

How locals move

Getting around Castle Hedingham the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

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