Finchingfield

Finchingfield is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of North Essex, England, a primarily rural area. It is approximately 6 miles from Thaxted, with the nearest larger towns being Saffron Walden and Braintree.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Finchingfield Guildhall and St John the Baptist Church, Finchingfield.

Finchingfield Guildhall

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St John the Baptist Church, Finchingfield

Church

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St John the Baptist Church is an Anglican church in the village of Finchingfield, North Essex. The church was originally built in the 12th century with a nave, chancel, and tower.

MDP Wethersfield

Police station

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MDP Wethersfield is a Ministry of Defence facility in Essex, England, located north of the village of Wethersfield, about 6 miles north-west of the town of Braintree. MDP Wethersfield is situated 2½ miles east of Finchingfield.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cornish Hall End and Hawkspur Green.

Cornish Hall End

Village

Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cornish Hall End is a village on the B1057 road three miles north of Finchingfield and 4 miles south of Steeple Bumpstead,{[cn|date=August 2026}} in the civil parish of Finchingfield, in the Braintree district of Essex, England. Cornish Hall End is situated 2½ miles north of Finchingfield.

Hawkspur Green

Hamlet

Hawkspur Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Little Bardfield, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. It is located near the villages of Great Bardfield and Finchingfield.

Howe Street

Hamlet

Howe Street is a hamlet in the Finchingfield civil parish of the Braintree District of Essex, England. The hamlet is a linear settlement of 1,000 yards length, and is 1 mile northeast from the village of Finchingfield.

Finchingfield

Type: Residential area
Location: Braintree District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.9685° or 51° 58′ 7″ north

Longitude

0.4547° or 0° 27′ 17″ east

Elevation

266 feet (81 metres)

Open location code

9F32XF93+9V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1491626899

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=residential

GeoNames ID

7298506

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In Other Languages

From French to Spanish—“Finchingfield” goes by many names.

French: “Finchingfield”
German: “Finchingfield”
Spanish: “Finchingfield”

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