Places to explore near Manningtree StationManningtree

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

1.4 km E

The mill and cottage of Constable's Hay Wain.

1.7 km NW

The elegant Stour-side village at the heart of Constable country, its wide High Street of Georgian houses and inns still framing the scenes the painter knew.

3.6 km W · Essex

Constable's birthplace at the heart of Dedham Vale, its church famed for a rare timber bell cage housing the bells at ground level.

3.8 km NW · Suffolk

Village pub in the Dedham Vale on The Good Food Guide's 100 Best Pubs.

5.4 km NW

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

8.7 km S

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

0.6 km S · Essex

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

0.6 km N · Essex & Suffolk

Reputedly England's smallest town, a row of Georgian houses and pubs on the Stour where the estuary opens out into the Dedham Vale landscape.

1 km SE · Essex

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

1.1 km NE · Suffolk, Essex & Cambridgeshire

A National Trust place in Essex.

2.2 km W

Two classical towers Robert Adam added in 1776 to either end of Mistley's Georgian church, left standing when the nave came down around 1870.

2.4 km E

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

6.2 km SW