Colchester

Hiking routes around Colchester

28 waymarked hiking routes run within 15 km of Colchester: 1 international, 1 national, 4 regional and 22 local.

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Around Colchester

Essex Way passes through Colchester: 3 sections with 132 km mapped in all, 46 km of them within 15 km. European long distance path E2 east passes through Colchester: 55 sections with 3,949 km mapped in all, 41 km of them within 15 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is St Edmund Way, 130 km long. Regional routes account for the largest share: 116 of the 299 km of waymarked route within 15 km. Most of the 22 local routes are short walks: 18 of them are under 10 km.

The routes with most of their length within 15 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

Good to know

  • Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
  • Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
  • Lengths within 15 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

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