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 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.
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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.
- 01Epping 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 - 02Dial 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 - 03Hill 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 - 04Church 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 - 05Weald 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
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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 Common29 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £3–4.5
- Luton, Luton → Tawney Common45 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Tawney Common166 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £18–24
- 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 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.
- Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.
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Next door to Tawney Common
Tawney Common is 25 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Epping Forestnon-metropolitan district in Essex, England, UK3.7 km
- Theydon Mountvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2 km
- Theydon Garnonvillage in Essex, England, UK3.4 km
- Stanford Riversvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.8 km
- North Weald Bassettvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.3 km
- Stapleford Tawneyvillage and civil parish in Epping Forest district, Essex, England, UK2.5 km