Stansted Mountfitchet
Stansted Mountfitchet, commonly known as Stansted, is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England.
Stansted Mountfitchet, commonly known as Stansted, is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It lies 35 miles (56 km) north-east of London. It gives its name to London Stansted Airport, which is 2 miles (3 km) south-east from the village centre. The village is served by Stansted Mountfitchet railway station.
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Worth seeing in and around Stansted Mountfitchet
7 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.
- 01Waytemore Castle
Waytemore Castle is a ruined castle in the town of Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire, England. The remains are a Grade I listed structure.
3.8 km · castle in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Arthur Findlay College
Arthur Findlay College is a college of Spiritualism and psychic sciences at Stansted Hall in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England. Stansted Hall was built in 1871, and the college was founded there in 1964.
1 km · British college of spiritualism and psychic science · Wikipedia - 03St Mary the Virgin's Church, Stansted Mountfitchet
St Mary the Virgin's Church is a redundant Anglican church near the village of Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
800 m · church in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Stansted Hall
Stansted or Steanstead Hall is located in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, East of England, United Kingdom. It was the country seat of the Earls of Essex during the reign of Henry VIII of England.
1 km · building in Stansted Mountfitchet, Uttlesford, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Hall'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.
3.5 km · gravel quarry now a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, England · Wikipedia - 06Orford House
Orford House is a country house in the small medieval hamlet of Ugley, Essex, England.
2.7 km · house in Ugley, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07All Saints' Church, Hockerill
All Saints' Church, Hockerill is a Grade II listed building, notable for being the first church designed by the 20th-century architect Stephen Dykes Bower. It is also notable for containing a rose window by Hugh Ray Easton and a pipe organ by Henry Willis II of Henry Willis & Sons.
3.6 km · church in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Mountfitchet Castle
All-weather heritage entertainment complex in Stansted Mountfitchet.
- 02Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill
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Things to do
- 01Whoosh Explore Canoe Club
82 Rainsford Rd,.
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Where to eat
- 01The Dog & Duck
58 Lower St.,.
- 02The Lower Street Brasserie
30 Lower St.,.
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Getting to Stansted Mountfitchet
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 3 km · London Luton (LTN), 39 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 66 km
- Stations
- London Stansted Airport, 2.9 km · Stansted Mountfitchet railway station, 400 m · Elsenham railway station, 3.3 km · Hockerill Halt railway station, 3.4 km
- London → Stansted Mountfitchet49 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £5–7
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Stansted Mountfitchet157 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £18–24
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Stansted Mountfitchet149 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £17–23
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stansted Mountfitchet
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 Stansted Mountfitchet. 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 Stansted Mountfitchet
Stansted Mountfitchet is 45 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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