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Manningtree Station

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Manningtree train station is on the Great Eastern Main Line, and serves the small town of Manningtree in Essex. it's a very pleasant riverside town, situated where the Stour begins to widen into Holbrook Bay.

The high street, a 10-minute walk from the station, is packed with shops, bars, pubs and restaurants, and features some fine Georgian buildings. The station lies just west of town, and was originally built in 1846, to designs by the major railway architect W. N. Ashbee. It was subsequently rebuilt in 1899, and has stood untouched since then. Today it offers regular passenger services to London Liverpool Street, Norwich, Harwich Town and Ipswich, with the trip to the capital taking about an hour and a quarter.

This is the place to stop at for lovely walks or cycling across the Dedham Vale.

Address
Manningtree Station
Station Approach, off A137
Manningtree
Essex
CO11 2LH

View on Greater Anglia

Facilities
  • Wheelchair Access
  • Ticket Machines
  • Seated area available
  • Station buffet 
  • Toilets on platform 2
  • Telephones available
  • Wi-fi
  • Post box
  • Shops

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Explore the area

Morag volunteer putting up banner for volunteers

ManningTree Station Volunteer

Stour Valley/Dedham Vale AONB

The Stour Valley and Dedham Vale are recognised as areas of outstanding beauty both of which are on the doorstep or should I say platform step of Manningtree station!

In the Guardian Saturday 30th January 2021 Kevin Rushby wrote an article about 10 UK places to find peace and solitude. It was great to read that the Stour Valley and Dedham Vale were in the list.

Kevin wrote ……”the seeker of serenity could  do worse than select a decent guru to follow and John Constable (1776-1837) might be a good candidate. The artist’s own hope was to depict “the calm sunshine of the heart” a delightful meditative ambition in an era of revolution and war. He particularly associated peacefulness with Suffolk’s Stour valley. These days the looping walk upriver from Manningtree to Dedham and back still gives plenty of the natural landscapes and birdsong that Constable knew, including Flatford Mill, once owned by Constable’s father and painted by the son several times.”

Even if you can’t get to do the walk you could simply admire Constable’s paintings online in Tate Britain.