Museum · Chappel · Essex

Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6

Visitors to Chappel can see Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6, a museum. Add any of 6 more places within 5 km to a visit. Top of the list nearby is Colchester Castle, 11 km away.

Where

In Chappel

inside the built-up area

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–23°C

In brief

Museum in Chappel

Inside Chappel

Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6 is inside Chappel’s built-up area, with 6 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Which month to go

Afternoons in Chappel reach 18–23°C from May to September.

Jan8° / 2°50 mm

Feb8° / 2°40 mm

Mar11° / 3°37 mm

Apr14° / 5°37 mm

May18° / 8°45 mm

Jun21° / 10°47 mm

Jul23° / 13°46 mm

Aug23° / 13°58 mm

Sep20° / 10°46 mm

Oct15° / 8°62 mm

Nov11° / 4°63 mm

Dec8° / 2°57 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Chappel, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Chappel. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Chappel’s full climate →

About

Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6

Museum.

In Chappel, inside the town’s built-up area.

Type: Museum
Town: in Chappel

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Its place on the map

Find Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6 in orange; each number is a place listed below.

Towns near it

Towns around Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6, by distance

In size, Earls Colne comes first of the 8, with 3,360 people. Each of these towns lists it on its own page of things to do.

1 · It’s in town

Chappel

218 people · 7 places to visit

2 · 2.2 km west of it

White Colne

370 people · 7 places to visit

3 · 2.3 km south of it

Great Tey

608 people · 7 places to visit

4 · 2.8 km east of it

Fordham

841 people · 5 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6 is	People	Places to visit
Chappel	It’s in town	218	7
White Colne	2.2 km west of it	370	7
Great Tey	2.3 km south of it	608	7
Fordham	2.8 km east of it	841	5
Earls Colne	3 km west of it	3,360	9
Eight Ash Green	3.8 km southeast of it	1,769	11
Bures	4.6 km north of it	1,183	5
Colne Engaine	4.8 km west of it	998	5

Make a day of it

Make a day of it near Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6

Of the 40 within 15 km, look for 2 castles, 2 abbeys or priories and a museum.

CastleColchester Castle11 km away 2MuseumMuseumEast Anglian Railway Museum100 m away 3

CastleHedingham Castle13 km away 4

ZooColchester Zoo8.6 km away 5

GardenSergeants Orchard2.2 km away 6

Abbey or priory · English HeritageSt. Botolph's Priory11 km away 7

FortBalkerne Gate10 km away 8

Abbey or priory · English HeritageSt. John's Abbey Gatehouse11 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Visiting Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6

Where is Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6?

Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6 is in Chappel, Essex, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6?

Museum.

When is the best time to visit Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6?

May to September are the warmest months in Chappel, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Heritage Centre & Platforms 5 + 6?

Within 15 km: Colchester Castle (11 km), East Anglian Railway Museum (100 m), Hedingham Castle (13 km) and Colchester Zoo (8.6 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (7)

Colchester Castle: George Gastin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Hedingham Castle: Agnete, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Colchester Zoo: Angela Tuff, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sergeants Orchard: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
St. Botolph's Priory: Maria, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Balkerne Gate: Tanya2501, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
St. John's Abbey Gatehouse: Saltmarsh, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

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