Ongar, Essex
Ongar is a civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England.
Ongar is a civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. The parish is named after its main settlement of Chipping Ongar and also includes the settlements of Greensted, Greensted Green, Marden Ash, and Shelley. The parish has been declared to be a town by its parish council. The Royal Mail uses Ongar as the name for the post town covering the area; the name Chipping Ongar is not used in official postal addresses. Ongar is located 21 miles (34 km) north-east of London and 10 miles (16 km) west of Chelmsford. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 7,138.
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Getting to Ongar, Essex
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 20 km · London Luton (LTN), 46 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 55 km
- London → Ongar, Essex34 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £3.5–5
- Luton, Luton → Ongar, Essex50 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Ongar, Essex170 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ongar, Essex
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 Ongar, Essex. 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 Ongar, Essex
Ongar, Essex is 30 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.