Fyfield, Essex

Best Village in England

Human settlement in England

Fyfield

District

Epping Forest

Shire county

Essex

Region

East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townONGARPostcode districtCM5Dialling code01277PoliceEssexFire Essex Ambulance East of England UK Parliament

Brentwood and Ongar

Websitefyfield-village.org

List of places: UK; England; Essex

51°44′21″N 0°16′20″E / 51.739042°N 0.272169°E / 51.739042; 0.272169

Fyfield is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.

The village is situated on the B184 road, and approximately 3 miles (5 km) north-east of Chipping Ongar, 7 miles (11 km) east of Harlow and 8 miles (13 km) west of Chelmsford.

The River Roding flows south through the village. Fyfield Mill is 180 yards (165 m) below Willingale Road at the south of the village. The watermill, which sits at the head of a mill pond on the River Roding, dates to the late 13th century and is a Grade II listed building.^[2]

Fyfield Hall on Willingale Road is the oldest inhabited timber-framed building in England.^[3] The house dates chiefly to the mid–13th century, contains an aisled hall dated 1140, and is Grade I listed.^[4]

Location grid

References

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
^ Historic England. "Fyfield Mill, Queen Street (1308964)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
^ Webb, Christine (31 August 2007). "1,000 Years On, And Still Going Strong". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 13 August 2007. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
^ Historic England. "Fyfield Hall, Willingale Road (1111326)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2015.

External links

Media related to Fyfield, Essex at Wikimedia Commons
Fyfield, British History Online
Fyfield village web site

v t e Ceremonial county of Essex
Unitary authorities	Southend-on-Sea Thurrock
Boroughs or districts	Basildon Braintree Brentwood Castle Point Chelmsford Colchester Epping Forest Harlow Maldon Rochford Tendring Uttlesford
Major settlements (cities in italics)	Aveley Basildon Billericay Braintree Brentwood Brightlingsea Buckhurst Hill Burnham-on-Crouch Canvey Island Chadwell St Mary Chelmsford Chigwell Chipping Ongar Clacton-on-Sea Coggeshall Colchester Corringham Dovercourt Epping Frinton-on-Sea Grays Great Dunmow Hadleigh Halstead Harlow Harwich Leigh-on-Sea Loughton Maldon Manningtree Pitsea Purfleet Rayleigh Rochford Saffron Walden Shoeburyness South Benfleet South Ockendon Southend-on-Sea South Woodham Ferrers Stanford-le-Hope Thaxted Thundersley Tilbury Waltham Abbey Walton-on-the-Naze West Mersea West Thurrock Wickford Witham Wivenhoe See also: List of civil parishes in Essex
Rivers	Blackwater Brain Cam Can Chelmer Ching Cobbins Brook Colne Crouch River Lea River Lee Flood Relief Channel Mardyke Pincey Brook Prittle Brook Roach Roding Roman Stort Stour Stour Brook Ter
Category

v t e Epping Forest District
Parishes	Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding Bobbingworth Buckhurst Hill Chigwell Epping Epping Upland Fyfield High Laver and Little Laver High Ongar Lambourne Loughton Magdalen Laver Matching Moreton Nazeing North Weald Bassett Ongar Roydon Sheering Stanford Rivers Stapleford Abbotts Stapleford Tawney Theydon Bois Theydon Garnon Theydon Mount Waltham Abbey Willingale
Other notable settlements	Abridge Chipping Ongar Clatterford End Colliers Hatch Epping Green Foster Street Greensted Hastingwood Hobbs Cross, Theydon Garnon Hobbs Cross, Matching Housham Tye Marden Ash Matching Green Matching Tye Newman's End Shelley Tawney Common Threshers Bush Thornwood Toot Hill Waltham Abbey
Attractions	Epping Forest (woodland) Epping Ongar Railway Greensted Church North Weald Airfield
Constituencies	Epping Forest Brentwood and Ongar