Great Chesterford
Great Chesterford is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is 3 miles north-west of Saffron Walden, its post town, 10 miles south from Cambridge and about 25 miles northwest from the city and Essex county town of Chelmsford.- Type: Village with 1,490 residents
- Description: village in Essex, England, UK
- Also known as: “Chesterford” and “Great Chesterford, Essex”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Congregational Chapel and Great Chesterford railway station.
Great Chesterford railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Chesterford and Ickleton.
Little Chesterford
Village
Little Chesterford is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, in the East of England. Close to the Cambridgeshire border, it is built principally along a single sunken lane to the east of a chalk stream tributary of the River Cam or Granta and is located 3⁄4 mile southeast of Great Chesterford and some 2+1⁄2 miles northwest of Saffron Walden.
Ickleton
Village
Ickleton is a village and civil parish about 9 miles south of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England. The village is beside the River Cam, close to where a southern branch of the Icknield Way crossed the river.
Hinxton
Village
Hinxton is a village in South Cambridgeshire, England. The River Cam runs through the village, as does the Cambridge to Liverpool Street railway, though the village has no station. Hinxton is situated 1½ miles northwest of Great Chesterford.
Great Chesterford
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Great Chesterford, Uttlesford District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.06519° or 52° 3′ 55″ north
Longitude
0.19911° or 0° 11′ 57″ east
Population
1,490
Elevation
141 feet (43 metres)
Open location code
9F42358X+3J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Great Chesterford” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Great Chesterford”
- Chinese: “Great Chesterford”
- Cornish: “Karrys”
- Dutch: “Great Chesterford”
- French: “Great Chesterford”
- German: “Great Chesterford”
- Irish: “Great Chesterford”
- Italian: “Great Chesterford”
- Ladin: “Great Chesterford”
- Latin: “Cestreforda Magna”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Great Chesterford”
- Persian: “گریت چسترفورد”
- Polish: “Great Chesterford”
- Spanish: “Great Chesterford”
- Swedish: “Great Chesterford”
- Urdu: “گریٹ چیسٹر فورڈ”
- Welsh: “Great Chesterford”
- “Great Chesterford”
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Notable Places Nearby
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