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

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.
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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.
- 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.
1.7 km · castle in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02High 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 - 03Barrington 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
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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 Canfield50 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–9
- London → Little Canfield50 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Little Canfield165 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £19–25
- 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 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.
- Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.
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Next door to Little Canfield
Little Canfield is 45 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Takeleyvillage in Essex, England, UK3.1 km
- Great Canfieldvillage in Essex, England, UK2.2 km
- High Rodingvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3 km
- Molehill Greenhamlet in Takeley, Essex, England, UK3.9 km
- Baconend Greenhamlet in Essex, England, United Kingdom1.8 km
- Bacon Endhamlet in Essex, England, UK2 km