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Tawney Common

Tawney Common also known as Woodhatch, is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stapleford Tawney in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex, England.

Tawney Common
Tawney Common · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tawney Common also known as Woodhatch, is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stapleford Tawney in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex, England. It is approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) east of Epping, 4 miles (6 km) west of Chipping Ongar and 13 miles (20 km) west from the county town of Chelmsford. Stapleford Tawney is approximately 2 miles (3 km) to the south. Tawney Common is south of the hamlet of Collier's Hatch, also in the Stapleford Tawney parish.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tawney Common

5 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
    Epping Ongar Railway

    The Epping Ongar Railway is a heritage railway in south-west Essex, England, run by a small number of paid staff and a team of volunteers. It was the final section of the Great Eastern Railway branch line, later the London Underground's Central line from Loughton via Epping to Ongar, with intermediate stations at North Weald and Blake Hall.

    2.7 km · heritage railway in Essex, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dial House

    Dial House is a farm cottage situated in south-west Essex, England that has been a self-sustaining anarcho-pacifist open house since 1967. The house is located in the countryside of Epping Forest in Ongar Great Park.

    3 km · listed building in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hill Hall

    Hill Hall is an Elizabethan, and later, country house in Theydon Mount near Epping, Essex, England. Although owned by English Heritage, the building has now been divided into many private apartments.

    2 km · Grade I listed country house in Theydon Mount, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church Lane Flood Meadow

    Church Lane Flood Meadow is a 3.3 hectare Local Nature Reserve in North Weald Bassett in Essex. It is owned and managed by Epping Forest District Council.

    3.5 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Weald Common Flood Meadows

    Weald Common Flood Meadows is a 1.9 hectare Local Nature Reserve in North Weald Bassett in Essex. It is owned and managed by Epping Forest District Council.

    2.7 km · park in United Kingdom · 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.

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Getting to Tawney Common

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 22 km · London Luton (LTN), 42 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 50 km
Stations
Epping tube station, 3.7 km · Blake Hall tube station, 3.5 km · North Weald Airfield, 3.7 km · North Weald railway station, 2.5 km
  • London → Tawney Common
    29 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £3–4.5
  • Luton, Luton → Tawney Common
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Tawney Common
    166 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £18–24
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tawney Common

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 Tawney Common. 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

    151 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    340 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    370 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    556 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    591 km

If you know how people move in Tawney Common – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Tawney Common

Tawney Common is 25 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.