New Rickstones Academy
Getting to and from New Rickstones Academy
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
Conrad Road
Witham
Essex
CM8 2SD
Heavy traffic zone
Heavy traffic at drop off and pick up times is usual. We recommend avoiding roads within roughly 1000 metres of New Rickstones Academy. This includes Conrad Road, Dorothy Sayers Drive, Forest Road, Laburnham Way, Rectory Lane, Rickstones Road and the smaller roads attached to them.
From the South East – cycling or walking
Forest Road via Dorothy Sayers Drive (1.1km approx.)
Drop off where Cypress Road meets Forest Road. Turn right onto Forest Road the turn left onto Laburnham Way. At the end of the road turn left onto Dorothy Sayers Drive, If cycling you must dismount your bike and walk it along Dorothy Sayers Drive. Turn right onto Rickstones Road. Turn left onto Conrad Road to reach New Rickstones Academy.
From the South East – cycling or walking
Forest Road via Cedar Drive (1.1km approx.)
Drop off where Cypress Road meets Forest Road. Turn right onto Forest Road the turn left onto Laburnham Way. Turn left onto Dorothy Sayers Drive, If cycling you must dismount your bike and walk it along Dorothy Sayers Drive. Turn right onto Cedar Drive, then turn left onto the public footpath and exit onto Elm Rise. Follow Elm Rise and turn right onto Rickstones Road. Turn left onto Conrad Road to reach New Rickstones Academy.
From the South - walking only
Rickstones Road (0.8km approx.)
Drop of where Rickstones Road meets Cypress Road. Turn right onto Rickstones Road and then turn left onto Conrad Road to reach New Rickstones Academy.
From the West - walking only.
Ebenezer Close (0.9km approx.)
Drop off where Ebenezer Close meets Glebe Crescent. Turn left onto the public footpath and follow onto Cressing Road. Turn left onto Conrad Road to reach New Rickstones Academy.
Bus routes
The 38 and 38A services run directly past the school, onto the rest of Witham and then Braintree. This route serves a lot of villages between the towns including Rivenhall, Silver End and Cressing. There are stops for these services directly outside the school in both directions, with raised kerbs to assist getting on and off. Less than a 1.6km’s away is Witham Station, which has plenty more bus services for Witham and villages like Terling, White Notley and Wickham Bishops.
Train routes
It’s under 1.6km’s walk to Witham Station and can be walked in an almost straight line, minimising the distance involved. The station is an important stop between Chelmsford and Colchester, stopping at smaller stations like Hatfield Peverel, Kelvedon and Marks Tey. Greater Anglia offer discounts on train travel for students at some schools.