Great Bentley railway station

Great Bentley railway station is on the Sunshine Coast Line, a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the village of Great Bentley as well as the nearby settlements of Brightlingsea, Frating, Thorrington and St Osyth.

Photo: RHaworth, CC BY 2.5.

Type: Railway station
Description: railway station in Great Bentley, Tendring, Essex, England, UK
Also known as: “GRB”, “Great Bentley Railway Station”, and “Great Bentley Station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Weeley railway station and Thorrington tide mill.

Weeley railway station

Railway station

Photo: WeeleyWeather, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Weeley railway station is on the Sunshine Coast Line, a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the village of Weeley, Essex. Weeley railway station is situated 2 miles east of Great Bentley railway station.

Thorrington tide mill

Photo: Roger W Haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Thorrington tide mill is situated 2 miles southwest of Great Bentley railway station.

Riddles Wood

Forest

Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Riddles Wood is a 37.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Brightlingsea and Clacton-on-Sea in Essex. The site has varied ancient pedunculate oak and hazel in some areas and oak and hornbeam in others, as well as chestnut coppice. Riddles Wood is situated 2½ miles southeast of Great Bentley railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Great Bentley and Aingers Green.

Great Bentley

Village

Photo: RHaworth, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Great Bentley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of north east Essex, England, located seven miles east of Colchester. The village is scattered round an extensive level or common, of 43 acres, on the eastern side of the vale of a rivulet, seven miles east-south-east of Colchester.