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Henham

Henham, or Henham-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England.

Henham
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The place

Henham, or Henham-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is situated 2.5 miles (4 km) north from London Stansted Airport. The parish includes the hamlets of Little Henham and Pledgdon Green. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,325.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Henham

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
    St Mary's Church, Chickney

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the parish of Chickney, Essex, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.5 km · church in Chickney, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.2 km · gravel quarry now a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Orford House

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

    3.5 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.

Go there

Getting to Henham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 6 km · London Luton (LTN), 43 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 71 km
Stations
Elsenham railway station, 2.1 km · Mill Road Halt railway station, 1.1 km · Henham Halt railway station, 400 m · Sibleys railway station, 2.1 km
  • Luton, Luton → Henham
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £6–8
  • London → Henham
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Henham
    148 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £16–22
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Henham

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 Henham. 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

    176 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    350 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    352 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 Henham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Henham

Henham is 50 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Elsenhamvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.3 km
  • Chickneyvillage and civil parish in Uttlesford, Essex, England, UK3.8 km
  • Broxtedvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.2 km
  • Widdingtonvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.2 km
  • Ugleyvillage in Essex, England2.9 km
  • Cherry Greenhamlet in Essex, England, UK2.8 km