Colchester Royal Grammar School

Getting to and from Colchester Royal Grammar School

These routes and maps are suggestions of how you could stop taking the car and swap to cycling, walking, or scooting to school. They don’t show every possible route and you could have fun finding a way that works for you. If you know a safe way that gets you there even quicker, that’s great! Take that route instead.

Address

Colchester Royal Grammar School

6 Lexden Road

Colchester

Essex

CO3 3ND

Heavy traffic zone

Heavy traffic at drop off and pick up times is usual. We recommend avoiding roads within roughly 1000 metres of Colchester Royal Grammar School. This includes, Crouch Street, Rawstorn Street, St Mary Fields, Southway and the smaller roads attached to them.

From the East - cycling and walking

St John’s Street (0.6km approx.)

Drop off where St John’s Street meets Headgate. Turn left onto Southway. At the roundabout take the third exit onto Southway and continue onto Lexden Road to reach Colchester Royal Grammar School.  

St John’s Street via Crouch Street (0.6km approx.)

Drop off where St John’s Street meets Headgate. Turn left onto Crouch Street and follow onto Lexden to reach Colchester Royal Grammar School. 

From the East - cycling only

St John’s Street via Southway (0.9km approx.)

Drop off where St John’s Street meets Abbygate Street. Follow Abbygate Street and then turn right onto Southway. At the roundabout take the third exit onto Southway and continue onto Lexden Road to reach Colchester Royal Grammar School. 

St John’s Street  (0.9km approx.)

Drop off where St John’s Street meets Abbygate St. Follow St John’s Street and then turn left onto Headgate. Turn right onto Southway. At the roundabout take the third exit onto Southway and continue onto Lexden Road to reach Colchester Royal Grammar School. 

Park & Ride

Park & Ride at Colchester could help you on your journey.

Bus routes

Lexden Road and Maldon Road are both major bus routes into and out of central Colchester, and almost border the school to the north and south respectively. Stops on Lexden Road have waiting shelters and seats. Both routes link to villages just outside Colchester, like Marks Tey, Layer-de-la-Haye and beyond.

Train routes

Colchester Royal is approximately 1.6km’s walk from Colchester Town train station, and less than a mile and a half from Colchester station. The latter provides quick access via the main East Anglian line to places like Manningtree, Witham, Clacton and Harwich-Dovercourt. Greater Anglia offer discounts on train travel for students at some schools.