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Great Dunmow is a historic market town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It lies to the north of the A120 road, approximately midway between Bishop's Stortford and Braintree , 5 mi (8 km) east of London Stansted Airport .
High Wood, Dunmow is a 41.5-hectare (103-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Great Dunmow in Essex. The local planning authority is Uttlesford District Council. [1] [2] The site on boulder clay and loess has areas of wet ash and maple woodland, and others of pedunculate oak and hornbeam. Some areas are ancient woodland.
The village is on the B1008 road, about 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (2.8 km) south-east of Great Dunmow and 9 miles (14 km) north-north-west from the county town of Chelmsford. The local churches are St Andrews and the Mission Evangelical Church. [2] According to the 2001 census it had a population of 850, increasing to 947 at the census 2011 [1]
Ordnance Survey map 1805 showing 'Aythorp Roding' In 1848 and 1882 directories the parish and village was termed 'Aythrop Roothing' and was in the Dunmow Hundred. It was also in the Dunmow Union—poor relief provision set up under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834—and part of the Rural Deanery of Roding. The registers of the church of St Mary ...
The River Ter is a river in Essex, England. The river rises in Stebbing Green and flowing via Terling it joins the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation at TL794089 near Rushes Lock. A small part of it, the River Ter SSSI near Great Leighs , has been a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest since 1994.
Meanwhile, Foakes Hall, which was financed by a legacy from Alice Foakes, was erected in Stortford Road and was officially opened in September 1934; it subsequently became the regular meeting place of Great Dunmow Parish Council. [12] By the second half of the 20th century, the old town hall was serving as the offices of a firm of estate agents.
Dunmow railway station was a station serving Great Dunmow, Essex. The station was 9 miles 38 chains (15.25 km) from Bishop's Stortford on the Bishop's Stortford to Braintree branch line ( Engineer's Line Reference BSB).
The source of the river is in the parish of Debden in north west Essex. [1] The two primary source streams run to the north and to the west of the hamlet of Debden Green.The longer of the sources rises in Rowney Wood, on the hill to the west of Debden Green, only a few hundred metres to the south east of the source of the River Cam that heads north through Cambridge eventually emptying into ...