Photo of Hylands Estate, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Chelmsford, Essex, eastern England.

Hylands Estate© Paul Franks / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Beaulieu ParkBeaulieu

17 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group.

Open the map here

Open in full map →Full map →

OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles · data from OpenStreetMap · terrain Mapzen/AWS

Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Highlight

Hylands Estate

House & garden near Chelmsford

A white neo-classical mansion in parkland shaped by a Humphry Repton Red Book.

7.6 km SW

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation

River navigation

Essex's own navigation of 1797, dropping through quiet farmland from Chelmsford to the tidal estuary at Heybridge Basin.

1.7 km S · Essex

Blake's Wood & Lingwood Common

SSSI near Chelmsford

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex.

3.9 km SE

Danbury Country Park

Country park near Chelmsford

A country park in Essex.

5.4 km SE

Essex Way

Long-distance path

Across rural Essex from Epping to the port of Harwich, through Constable's Dedham Vale and a string of medieval villages.

5.6 km N · Essex

Danbury Common

SSSI near Chelmsford

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex.

5.9 km SE

Blackwater Rail Trail Country Park

Country park near Maldon

A country park in Essex.

9 km E

Pleshey

Village

A quiet village encircled by the vast earthworks and moat of a vanished Norman castle, its brick bridge among the oldest in England.

9.9 km NW · Essex

Everything else within 10 km (9) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Woodham Walter CommonSSSI5.3 km SE
River TerSSSIaccess unclear5.9 km N
Danbury campHillfortaccess unclear6 km SE
Hatfield PrioryPrioryaccess unclear6 km E
Blunts Hall ringworkEarthworks of a former castleaccess unclear8.3 km NE
Bicknacre PrioryPrioryaccess unclear8.3 km SE
Pleshey CastleCastleaccess unclear8.9 km NW
Thrift Wood, Woodham FerrersSSSIaccess unclear9.1 km SE
Newney Green PitSSSIaccess unclear9.6 km W

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.