Village in Essex, England

Great Yeldham

Great Yeldham is a village and civil parish in north Essex, England, about 6 miles (10 km) from the Suffolk border.

Plan a trip to Great Yeldham→From Luton, Luton

Every way there

Luton, Luton → Great Yeldham
69 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £8–11
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London → Great Yeldham
74 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Yeldham
156 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £17–23
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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 Yeldham, 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 Yeldham has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 27 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, 15 km.

52.016°, 0.563°

It is situated along the main A1017 road between Braintree and Haverhill. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,948.

How locals move

Getting around Great Yeldham 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: Victuallers (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.