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 is a hamlet in the civil parish of North Weald Bassett, in the Epping Forest district in the English county of Essex.
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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.
- 01Church 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 - 02BMAT 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 - 03Contrapuntal 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 - 04Church 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 - 05Gibberd 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 - 06St 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
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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 Street34 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £3.5–5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Foster Street14 km · quickest by road, 33 min · £2–2.5
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Foster Street21 km · quickest by road, 46 min · £2.5–3.5
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 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.
- Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.
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Foster Street is 31 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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