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 Chelmsford StationChelmsford City Centre

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

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Hylands Estate

House & garden near Chelmsford

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

3.4 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 km SE · Essex

Blake's Wood & Lingwood Common

SSSI near Chelmsford

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex.

6 km E

Danbury Country Park

Country park near Chelmsford

A country park in Essex.

6.4 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.

6.6 km N · Essex

Danbury Common

SSSI near Chelmsford

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex.

7.1 km E

Stock Windmill

Windmill near Stock

A Grade II* tower mill of about 1804 at Stock, several floors of machinery intact and explained by guides on open days.

8 km S

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.

9.4 km NW · Essex

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

Newney Green PitSSSIaccess unclear5.7 km W
Danbury campHillfortaccess unclear7.6 km E
Woodham Walter CommonSSSI7.7 km E
Hanningfield ReservoirSSSIaccess unclear7.9 km S
Pleshey CastleCastleaccess unclear8.5 km NW
River TerSSSIaccess unclear9 km N
Bicknacre PrioryPrioryaccess unclear9.1 km SE
Thrift Wood, Woodham FerrersSSSIaccess unclear9.7 km SE
Hatfield PrioryPrioryaccess unclear9.9 km E

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.