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Hatfield Heath

Hatfield Heath is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England.

Hatfield Heath
Hatfield Heath · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Hatfield Heath is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It adjoins the border with Hertfordshire to the west. In close proximity are the towns of Bishop's Stortford and Sawbridgeworth. Stansted Airport is approximately 5 miles (8 km) to the north. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,998.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hatfield Heath

3 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
    Barrington 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.

    3.7 km · house in Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Little Hallingbury Marsh

    Little Hallingbury Marsh is a 4.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest adjacent to the River Stort, west of Little Hallingbury in Essex. It was notified under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and the local planning authority is Uttlesford District Council.

    3.8 km · biological site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Down Hall

    Down Hall is a Victorian country house and estate near Hatfield Heath in the English county of Essex, close to its border with Hertfordshire. It is surrounded by 110 acres of woodland, parkland and landscaped gardens, some of which is protected by the Essex Wildlife Trust.

    1.9 km · house in Hatfield Heath, Uttlesford, 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.

Go there

Getting to Hatfield Heath

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 8 km · London Luton (LTN), 40 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 60 km
Stations
Sawbridgeworth railway station, 3.4 km
  • Luton, Luton → Hatfield Heath
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £5–7
  • London → Hatfield Heath
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £4.5–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Hatfield Heath
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £19–25
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hatfield Heath

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 Hatfield Heath. 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

    163 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    345 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    361 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    547 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    582 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hatfield Heath

Hatfield Heath is 38 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.