Town in Essex, England

Chipping Ongar

Chipping Ongar is a market town in the parish of Ongar, in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England.

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London → Chipping Ongar
34 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £3.5–5
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Luton, Luton → Chipping Ongar
50 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Chipping Ongar
170 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £19–25
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The field note

What is in and around Chipping Ongar, 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 Chipping Ongar has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 20 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesBarking Riverside, 23 km; sailings estimated
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.

51.703°, 0.244°

It is located 6 miles (10 km) east of Epping, 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Harlow and 7 miles (11 km) north-west of Brentwood. At the 2021 census the built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 3,967. 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.

How locals move

Getting around Chipping Ongar 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. Photograph: Roy Strutt (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.