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Photo of Mersea Island, an island in Essex, eastern England.

Mersea IslandPhoto Jude Mack / Unsplash

Places to explore near Great Bentley StationGreat Bentley

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

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo of Beth Chatto Gardens, a garden near Elmstead Market, Essex, eastern England.Highlight

Beth Chatto Gardens

Garden near Elmstead Market

The influential 'right plant, right place' gardens created from gravel and bog at Elmstead Market, with famous dry, woodland and water gardens.

4.9 km NW

Photo of Brightlingsea Lido, a lido in Essex, eastern England.Highlight

Brightlingsea Lido

Lido near Brightlingsea

A 1932 seafront lido in Brightlingsea, the last in Essex, rescued and run by volunteers since 2018.

6 km SW

Photo of Mersea Island, an island in Essex, eastern England.Highlight

Mersea Island

Island near West Mersea

Tidal Essex island reached by the Strood causeway, with West Mersea's oysters and beach huts and Cudmore Grove country park

7.2 km SW

Photo of Suffolk Coast & Heaths, a National Landscape in eastern England.Highlight

Suffolk Coast & Heaths

National Landscape near Framlingham

Shingle beaches, reedy estuaries and gorse heaths along a soft, low-lying coast made for gentle walking

9.5 km N

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

9.7 km N

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Photo of Brightlingsea, a village in Essex, eastern England.

Brightlingsea

Village

A creekside sailing town on the Colne estuary with a row of pastel beach huts and blue-flag bathing along Cindery Island shore.

5.2 km SW · Essex

Wivenhoe

Village

A creative riverside village on the Colne below Colchester, its quay lined with colourful houses, galleries and old sailmakers' cottages.

7.2 km W · Essex

Photo along the King Charles III England Coast Path, a 2,700-mile National Trail in England.

King Charles III England Coast Path

National Trail

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

7.3 km SW · spans 24 counties

Photo of Cudmore Grove Country Park, a country park near Brightlingsea, Essex, eastern England.

Cudmore Grove Country Park

Country park near Brightlingsea

A country park in Essex.

7.8 km SW

Photo of Green Island Gardens, a garden near Ardleigh, Essex, eastern England.

Green Island Gardens

Garden near Ardleigh

Twenty acres of private gardens at Ardleigh near Colchester, mixing Japanese, gravel, water and woodland planting.

8.1 km NW

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.

9.5 km N · Essex

Everything else within 10 km (16) — 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.