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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.

The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Waytemore 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
  2. 02
    Arthur 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
  3. 03
    St 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
  4. 04
    Stansted 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
  5. 05
    Portingbury 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
  6. 06
    All 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
  7. 07
    Hatfield 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
  8. 08
    Halifax 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
  9. 09
    Bishop'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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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 → Birchanger
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £5–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Birchanger
    157 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £18–24
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Birchanger
    150 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £17–22
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.

From Wikivoyage: Harlow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    169 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    346 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    358 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    540 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    575 km

If you know how people move in Birchanger – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Birchanger

Birchanger is 44 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.