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Elsenham

Elsenham is a village and civil parish in north-west Essex in eastern England.

Elsenham
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The place

Elsenham is a village and civil parish in north-west Essex in eastern England. It lies 4 miles (6 km) north-east of Bishop's Stortford, its post town, which is over the county boundary in Hertfordshire. It is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of the large village of Stansted Mountfitchet and lies to the north of London Stansted Airport. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 3,571 and the Elsenham built up area had a population of 3,501.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Elsenham

5 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
    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.

    2.8 km · British college of spiritualism and psychic science · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3 km · church in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.8 km · building in Stansted Mountfitchet, Uttlesford, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hall's Quarry

    Hall's Quarry is a 0.8-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Ugley Green in Essex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    1.7 km · gravel quarry now a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Orford House

    Orford House is a country house in the small medieval hamlet of Ugley, Essex, England.

    1.5 km · house in Ugley, Essex, England, UK · 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 Elsenham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 4 km · London Luton (LTN), 41 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 69 km
Stations
London Stansted Airport, 4 km · Stansted Mountfitchet railway station, 2.8 km · Elsenham railway station, 200 m · Henham Halt railway station, 2.5 km · Mill Road Halt railway station, 1.3 km
  • Luton, Luton → Elsenham
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £6–8
  • London → Elsenham
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £5–7
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Elsenham
    149 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Elsenham

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 Elsenham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    173 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    348 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    355 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    538 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    573 km

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

Around it

Next door to Elsenham

Elsenham is 48 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.