Birchanger
Birchanger is a village in Essex, England, 3 km (1.9 mi) north-east of Bishop's Stortford, its post town, and 25 km (16 mi) north-west of the county town, Chelmsford.
Birchanger is a village in Essex, England, 3 km (1.9 mi) north-east of Bishop's Stortford, its post town, and 25 km (16 mi) north-west of the county town, Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Uttlesford and the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden. There is a Parish Council. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 864.
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Worth seeing in and around Birchanger
9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Waytemore Castle
Waytemore Castle is a ruined castle in the town of Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire, England. The remains are a Grade I listed structure.
2.7 km · castle in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Arthur Findlay College
Arthur Findlay College is a college of Spiritualism and psychic sciences at Stansted Hall in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England. Stansted Hall was built in 1871, and the college was founded there in 1964.
1.9 km · British college of spiritualism and psychic science · Wikipedia - 03St Mary the Virgin's Church, Stansted Mountfitchet
St Mary the Virgin's Church is a redundant Anglican church near the village of Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
1.6 km · church in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Stansted Hall
Stansted or Steanstead Hall is located in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, East of England, United Kingdom. It was the country seat of the Earls of Essex during the reign of Henry VIII of England.
1.9 km · building in Stansted Mountfitchet, Uttlesford, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Portingbury Hills
Portingbury Hills or Portingbury Rings is a hill in Hatfield Forest, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, United Kingdom.
3.1 km · hill in Hatfield Forest, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06All Saints' Church, Hockerill
All Saints' Church, Hockerill is a Grade II listed building, notable for being the first church designed by the 20th-century architect Stephen Dykes Bower. It is also notable for containing a rose window by Hugh Ray Easton and a pipe organ by Henry Willis II of Henry Willis & Sons.
2.4 km · church in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Hatfield Forest
Hatfield Forest is a 403.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, England, 3 mi east of Bishop's Stortford. It is also a National Nature Reserve and a Nature Conservation Review site.
3.5 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, three miles east of Bishop's Stortford, England · Wikipedia - 08Halifax Building Society
The Corn Exchange is a commercial building in the Market Square in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. The structure now accommodates shops and offices.
3 km · building in Bishop's Stortford, East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Bishop's Stortford Museum
Bishop's Stortford Museum is a museum in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. It opened in 1938 as the "Rhodes' Birthplace Museum".
3.2 km · local museum in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England incorporating the Rhodes birthplace · Wikipedia
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Getting to Birchanger
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 3 km · London Luton (LTN), 39 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 64 km
- Stations
- London Stansted Airport, 2.6 km · Stansted Mountfitchet railway station, 2 km · Bishop's Stortford railway station, 2.9 km · Hockerill Halt railway station, 1.9 km · Stane Street Halt railway station, 3.8 km
- London → Birchanger47 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £5–6
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Birchanger157 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £18–24
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Birchanger150 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £17–22
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Birchanger
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Birchanger. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.
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Next door to Birchanger
Birchanger is 44 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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