Village in Essex, England

Birchanger

Birchanger is a village in Essex, England, 3 km (1.9 mi) north-east of Bishop's Stortford, its post town, and 25 km (16 mi) north-west of the county town, Chelmsford.

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Every way there

London → Birchanger
47 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £5–6
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Birchanger
157 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £18–24
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Birchanger
150 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £17–22
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Birchanger, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Birchanger has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 3 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Harlow, 13 km.

51.883°, 0.198°

The village is in the district of Uttlesford and the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden. There is a Parish Council. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 864.

How locals move

Getting around Birchanger the local way

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. Last edited 2026-04.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.