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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 .
Garnetts Wood and Barnston Lays is a 25 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest two miles south of Great Dunmow in Essex. It is owned and managed by Essex County Council "for quiet public recreation". [1] [2] The site is coppiced woodland, mostly ancient, on glacial silt, sands, gravels and clay soils.
Little Dunmow is a village situated in the Uttlesford district, in rural Essex, England, in the vale of the River Chelmer about 3 miles (4.8 km) east-southeast of the town of Great Dunmow. It can be reached from the Dunmow South exit of the A120 by following the road towards Braintree (B1256) for 3.2 km before turning right for the village.
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]
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.
It is located 10 miles (16 km) north-east of Chelmsford, 15 miles (24 km) west of Colchester and 35 miles (56 km) north-west of Southend-on-Sea. According to the 2021 Census , the town had a population of 43,492; the urban area, which includes Great Notley , Rayne , Tye Green and High Garrett , had a population of 55,793.
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 ...
By 1914 the school was a Public Elementary School controlled by Essex Education (Dunmow District) Sub-Committee. [8] [9] In 1848, parish land area measured 873 acres (3.53 km 2) after which it rose to 913 acres (3.69 km 2) up to at least 1914. Crops grown at the time were chiefly wheat, barley and beans, on a heavy soil with a clay subsoil.