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# Elmstead Market

Elmstead Market is a village in the civil parish of Elmstead, in the Tendring district of Essex, England.

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## Every way there

- London, Essex → Elmstead Market 88 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-essex-to-elmstead-market) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London%2C+Essex&to=Elmstead+Market)
- London → Elmstead Market 88 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-elmstead-market) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Elmstead+Market)
- Luton, Luton → Elmstead Market 97 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £13–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-elmstead-market) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=Elmstead+Market)

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 Elmstead Market, 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 Elmstead Market has

- Y Scheduled flights London, Essex (STN), 52 km
- F Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
- Y Ferries Wivenhoe Fingringhoe Rowhedge Ferry, 4 km; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Colchester, 6 km.

51.880°, 0.994°

It lies 2+1⁄4 miles (3.6 km) north-east of Wivenhoe and 4+1⁄4 miles (6.8 km) east of Colchester. It is on the A133 road which runs to Clacton-on-Sea to the south-east and Colchester to the west. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 1,684.

How locals move

## Getting around Elmstead Market the local way

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

From [Wikivoyage: Colchester](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Colchester), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmstead_Market), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Grahamec (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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