Great Canfield
Great Canfield is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England.
Great Canfield is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village, which sits at the south-east edge of its civil parish, is approximately 3 miles (5 km) south-west from the small town of Great Dunmow, and one mile (1.6 km) north-west from High Roding. The civil parish contains the hamlets and small settlements of Hope End Green, Hellmans Cross, Bacon End, Baconend Green, and Puttocks End. The River Roding defines the parish border at the south-east, and for one-mile (1.6 km) cuts through the parish before providing part of the north-east border. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 476.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Canfield
2 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.
- 01Great Canfield Castle
Great Canfield Castle lies in the small village of Great Canfield, 3 miles south-west of Great Dunmow in Essex, England: grid reference TL595179. The lords of Canfield, the de Veres, built a motte and bailey castle on low ground near the River Roding, probably in the late 11th or early 12th century.
1.3 km · castle in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Barrington Hall
Barrington Hall is a Grade II* listed 18th-century English country house in Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England. Barrington Hall is built in red brick, in both two and three storeys, with a balustraded parapet and a number of ornamentally shaped Dutch gables.
3.3 km · house in Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Canfield
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 6 km · London Luton (LTN), 46 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 66 km
- Stations
- Easton Lodge railway station, 3.6 km
- Luton, Luton → Great Canfield50 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £6–8
- London → Great Canfield48 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £5–7
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Great Canfield166 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £19–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Great Canfield
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 Great Canfield. 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 Great Canfield
Great Canfield is 44 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Takeleyvillage in Essex, England, UK3.6 km
- Aythorpe Rodingvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.3 km
- Hatfield Broad Oakvillage in Essex, England, UK4 km
- High Rodingvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.5 km
- Little Canfieldvillage in Essex, England, UK1 km
- Baconend Greenhamlet in Essex, England, United Kingdom1.7 km