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Foster Street

Foster Street is a hamlet in the civil parish of North Weald Bassett, in the Epping Forest district in the English county of Essex.

Foster Street
Foster Street · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Foster Street is a hamlet in the civil parish of North Weald Bassett, in the Epping Forest district in the English county of Essex.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Foster Street

6 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
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, Harlow

    St Mary the Virgin Church is located in Latton, Harlow, Essex, England. It is an Anglican church and is liberal catholic in tradition.

    3 km · church in Harlow, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    BMAT STEM Academy

    BMAT STEM Academy is a University Technical College within the Harlow College campus in Harlow, Essex, England, which opened in September 2014 as Sir Charles Kao UTC. It was named after the Nobel Prize winning scientist Charles K. Kao who worked and studied at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in Harlow. The Academy is currently rated as "Good" in all areas by Ofsted following an inspection in January 2023.

    3.4 km · college in Essex, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Contrapuntal Forms

    Contrapuntal Forms is a stone sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, one of her first public commissions, made in 1950–51 for the Festival of Britain and installed outside the Dome of Discovery on South Bank, London. It was one of two Hepworth commissions for the festival: the other was an abstract rotating sculpture, Turning Forms.

    3.6 km · sculpture by Barbara Hepworth · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of Our Lady of Fatima

    Our Lady of Fatima's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Harlow, Essex, England. It was designed between 1953 and 1954 by Gerard Goalen and was one of the earliest churches in England where the design was influenced by the Liturgical Movement.

    3.6 km · Catholic church building in Harlow, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Gibberd Garden

    Gibberd Garden is a garden in Harlow, Essex, England, which was created by Sir Frederick Gibberd and his wife Patricia Gibberd. They designed the garden and added sculptures, ceramic pots, and architectural salvage from 1972 till his death in 1984.

    3.4 km · garden in Essex, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mary & St Hugh, Old Harlow

    St Mary & St Hugh's Church is a Church of England parish church in Churchgate Street, Old Harlow in Essex, England. The church is of medieval origin and was given Grade II listed status on 5 July 1950.

    2.4 km · church in Old Harlow, 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.

Go there

Getting to Foster Street

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 15 km · London Luton (LTN), 38 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 53 km
Stations
Harlow Mill railway station, 3.6 km
  • London → Foster Street
    34 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £3.5–5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Foster Street
    14 km · quickest by road, 33 min · £2–2.5
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Foster Street
    21 km · quickest by road, 46 min · £2.5–3.5
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Foster Street

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 Foster Street. 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

    157 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    341 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    367 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    549 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    584 km

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

Around it

Next door to Foster Street

Foster Street is 31 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.