Village in Essex, England

Great Tey

Great Tey is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England.

Every way there

London → Great Tey
74 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
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Luton, Luton → Great Tey
80 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £10–13
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Tey
174 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £20–27
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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 Great Tey, 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 Great Tey has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 35 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, 15 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, 11 km.

51.900°, 0.748°

It is near the villages of Marks Tey and Little Tey, located approximately six miles west of Colchester. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 921.

How locals move

Getting around Great Tey 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.