Places to explore near Mistley StationMistley

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

0.1 km N

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

2.1 km NW

The mill and cottage of Constable's Hay Wain.

4.2 km NW

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

5.8 km NW · Suffolk

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.

6.2 km W · Essex

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

7.9 km W

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

9.3 km SW

A slender six-storey Tudor brick folly above the Orwell, arguably the oldest folly in England.

9.9 km NE

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

0.1 km NW · Essex

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.

0.3 km NW

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.

1.9 km W · Essex

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

2.1 km NW · Essex & Suffolk

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

2.3 km NW · Suffolk, Essex & Cambridgeshire

A National Trust place in Essex.

4.8 km W

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

7.7 km SW