Village in Essex, England

Peldon

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

Plan a trip to Peldon→From London, Essex

Every way there

London, Essex → Peldon
78 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–12
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London → Peldon
78 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–12
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Luton, Luton → Peldon
90 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £12–16
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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 Peldon, 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 Peldon has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 45 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, 7 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, 9 km.

51.812°, 0.886°

It shares a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parishes of Great and Little Wigborough, Salcott, and Virley, called the Winstred Hundred parish council. Nearby villages include Langenhoe. The parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and is a Grade I listed building. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 568.

How locals move

Getting around Peldon 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: Industrial Wales (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.