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Photo of Dedham Vale, a National Landscape in eastern England.

Dedham ValePhoto Anisa Mustafa / Unsplash

Places to explore near Chappel & Wakes Colne StationWakes Colne

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

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Photo of Dedham Vale, a National Landscape in eastern England.Highlight

Dedham Vale

National Landscape near Stoke-by-Nayland

Constable's own valley of slow river, water meadows and old mills on the Suffolk and Essex border, made for a gentle day

4.2 km NE

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.

7.6 km SW · Essex

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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.

1.5 km S · Essex

Photo along the Stour Valley Path, a 60-mile long-distance path running from Newmarket to Cattawade, eastern England.

Stour Valley Path

Long-distance path

Newmarket to the estuary at Cattawade down the Suffolk Stour, finishing among the scenes Constable painted in Dedham Vale.

4.5 km NE · Suffolk, Essex & Cambridgeshire

Photo of the River Stour (Suffolk), a river navigation running from Sudbury to Cattawade, eastern England.

River Stour (Suffolk)

River navigation

Constable's river — one of England's first navigations, through Dedham Vale from Sudbury to the estuary at Cattawade.

4.6 km NE · Essex & Suffolk

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.

7.3 km SW

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.

7.6 km SW

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.

8.1 km SW

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.

8.2 km SW

West Street Vineyard

Vineyard near Coggeshall

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

8.7 km SW

Photo of Nayland, a village in Dedham Vale, Suffolk, eastern England.

Nayland

Village

A riverside Stour-valley village of timber-framed and colour-washed houses, its church holding a rare altarpiece by Constable.

9.4 km NE · Suffolk

Everything else within 10 km (12) — 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.