Abberton Reservoir

Abberton Reservoir is a bus stop in Layer-de-la-Haye, City of Colchester, England. Abberton Reservoir is situated nearby to the tourism office Essex Wildlife Trust Visitor Centre, as well as near the forest St Mary the Virgin Churchyard.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Abberton Reservoir and Layer Marney Tower.

Abberton Reservoir

Reservoir

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Abberton Reservoir is a pumped storage freshwater reservoir in eastern England near the Essex coast, with an area of 700 hectares. Most of its water is pumped from the River Stour.

Layer Marney Tower is an incomplete early Tudor country house, with gardens and parkland, dating from about 1523, in Layer Marney, Essex, England, between Colchester and Maldon. Layer Marney Tower is situated 2 miles west of Abberton Reservoir.

Abbotts Hall Farm

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Abbotts Hall Farm is a 282 hectare nature reserve in Great Wigborough in Essex. It is the head office of the Essex Wildlife Trust, which manages the site. Abbotts Hall Farm is situated 2 miles south of Abberton Reservoir.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Great Wigborough and Little Wigborough.

Great Wigborough

Village

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Great Wigborough is a village in the civil parish of Great and Little Wigborough in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. The place-name 'Wigborough' first appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Wicgebergha and Wighebergha. Great Wigborough is situated 1½ miles south of Abberton Reservoir.

Little Wigborough

Hamlet

Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Little Wigborough is a village in the civil parish of Great and Little Wigborough, in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. Little Wigborough is located between Peldon and Great Wigborough. Little Wigborough is situated 1½ miles southeast of Abberton Reservoir.

Layer de la Haye

Village

Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Layer de la Haye, sometimes hyphenated as Layer-de-la-Haye, is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It is the largest and easternmost of the three neighbouring parishes called Layer, the others being Layer Breton and Layer Marney. Layer de la Haye is situated 2 miles north of Abberton Reservoir.

Abberton Reservoir

Type: Bus stop
Category: transportation
Location: Layer-de-la-Haye, City of Colchester, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.82152° or 51° 49′ 18″ north

Longitude

0.84673° or 0° 50′ 48″ east

Open location code

9F32RRCW+JM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6208816685

OpenStreetMap feature

highway=bus_stop

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=platform

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