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Photo of Cressing Temple Barns, a visitor attraction near Coggeshall, Essex, eastern England.

Cressing Temple Barns© Stefan Czapski / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Braintree StationBraintree

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

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Photo of Cressing Temple Barns, a visitor attraction near Coggeshall, Essex, eastern England.Highlight

Cressing Temple Barns

Attraction near Coggeshall

Two vast medieval timber barns built by the Knights Templar near Braintree, among the oldest in Europe, with a walled Tudor garden.

5.7 km SE

Photo of Coggeshall, a village in Essex, eastern England.Highlight

Coggeshall

Village

A Blackwater wool town thick with timber-framed houses, from the Tudor merchant's Paycocke's to a medieval tithe barn beside the abbey ruins.

9.3 km E · Essex

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Photo of Flitch Way Country Park, a country park near Great Dunmow, Essex, eastern England.

Flitch Way Country Park

Country park near Great Dunmow

A country park in Essex.

1.7 km W

Photo of Great Notley Country Park, a country park near Pleshey, Essex, eastern England.

Great Notley Country Park

Country park near Pleshey

A country park in Essex.

2.7 km SW

Photo of Bocking Windmill, a windmill in Essex, eastern England.

Bocking Windmill

Windmill near Bocking

A post mill with a two-storey roundhouse standing in Church Street, Bocking since 1721, opened by volunteers on advertised days.

3.2 km N

Photo along the Essex Way, an 81-mile long-distance path running from Epping to Harwich, eastern England.

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.

3.8 km SE · Essex

West Street Vineyard

Vineyard near Coggeshall

A working vineyard and cellar-door restaurant at Coggeshall, with vines, a shop and dining among the rows.

8 km E

Photo of Paycocke's House and Garden, a house & garden near Coggeshall, Essex, eastern England.

Paycocke's House and Garden

House & garden near Coggeshall

A half-timbered merchant's house of about 1500, famed for its carved timberwork.

8.7 km E

Photo of Coggeshall Grange Barn, an ancient site in Essex, eastern England.

Coggeshall Grange Barn

Ancient site near Coggeshall

A National Trust place in Essex.

8.8 km E

Photo of St Peter ad Vincula, Coggeshall, a church in Essex, eastern England.

St Peter ad Vincula, Coggeshall

Church near Coggeshall

One of the finest Perpendicular Gothic churches in Essex, a lofty wool-town church rebuilt after wartime bomb damage.

9.2 km E

Marks Hall Gardens & Arboretum

Garden near Coggeshall

A 200-acre arboretum and walled gardens near Coggeshall, holding trees from every temperate region and one of Europe's biggest Wollemi pine plantings.

9.3 km E

Everything else within 10 km (6) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

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.