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Little Canfield

Little Canfield is a village and a civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England.

Little Canfield
Little Canfield · Harvey Milligan
The place

Little Canfield is a village and a civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is situated the B1256 road, near the A120 road and immediately east of the village of Takeley. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,341.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Little Canfield

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
    Great 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.

    1.7 km · castle in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    High Wood, Dunmow

    High Wood, Dunmow is a 41.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Great Dunmow in Essex. The local planning authority is Uttlesford District Council.

    3.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.9 km · house in Hatfield Broad Oak, 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 Little Canfield

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 6 km · London Luton (LTN), 46 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km
Stations
Easton Lodge railway station, 2.7 km
  • Luton, Luton → Little Canfield
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–9
  • London → Little Canfield
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Little Canfield
    165 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £19–25
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Little 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 Little Canfield. 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

    171 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    352 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    354 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 Little Canfield – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Little Canfield

Little Canfield is 45 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.