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London Stansted Airport

London Stansted Airport is 's third airport. Despite bearing London's name, it is actually in , about 30 mi north of the capital. There are coaches and direct express trains into The City and Victoria Coach Station in London all day and overnight.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: passenger airport at Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England
  • Also known as: “EGSS”, “London Stansted”, “Stansted”, “Stansted Airport”, and “STN”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stansted Airport railway station and Arthur Findlay College.

Railway station
Photo: Avocet, Public domain.
serves London Stansted Airport, in , England. It is the northern terminus of a branch line off the West Anglia Main Line, to which the dedicated Stansted Express service operates.

College
is a college of Spiritualism and psychic sciences at Stansted Hall in , , England. Stansted Hall was built in 1871, and the college was founded there in 1964.

Church
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary the Virgin's Church is a redundant Anglican church near the village of , , . It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stansted Mountfitchet.

Photo: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, commonly known as Stansted, is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of , England. It lies 35 miles north-east of .

London Stansted Airport

Latitude
51.887° or 51° 53′ 13″ north
Longitude
0.2429° or 0° 14′ 35″ east
Elevation
348 feet (106 metres)
IATA airport code
STN
ICAO airport code
EGSS
United Nations Location Code
GB STN
Open location code
9F32V6PV+Q5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 495488524
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6296645
Wiki­data ID
Q8709
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“London Stansted Airport” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lughawe Londen-Stansted”
  • Arabic: “مطار لندن ستانستد”
  • Aragonese: “Aeropuerto de Londres-Stansted”
  • Armenian: “Լոնդոնի Սթանսթեդ օդանավակայան”
  • Asturian: “Aeropuertu de Londres-Stansted”
  • Basque: “Londres-Stansted aireportua”
  • Bengali: “লন্ডন স্ট্যানস্টেড বিমানবন্দর”
  • Catalan: “Aeroport de Londres-Stansted”
  • Cebuano: “London Stansted Airport”
  • Cebuano: “Stansted Airport”
  • Chinese: “伦敦斯坦斯特德机场”
  • Chinese: “倫敦史丹斯提機場”
  • Chinese: “倫敦史坦斯特機場”
  • Chinese: “史坦斯特機場”
  • Chinese: “斯坦斯特德机场”
  • Czech: “Letiště London Stansted”
  • Czech: “Letiště Londýn-Stansted”
  • Czech: “Stansted”
  • Danish: “London Stansted Airport”
  • Dutch: “London Stansted Airport”
  • Dutch: “Luchthaven Londen Stansted”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مطار لندن ستانستيد”
  • Esperanto: “Flughaveno London Stansted”
  • Estonian: “Londoni Stanstedi lennujaam”
  • Finnish: “Stanstedin lentoasema”
  • French: “aéroport de Londres Stansted”
  • French: “Aéroport de Londres Stansted”
  • French: “Aéroport de Londres-Stansted”
  • French: “EGSS”
  • French: “Londres-Stansted”
  • French: “Stansted”
  • French: “STN”
  • Galician: “Aeroporto de Londres-Stansted”
  • Georgian: “ლონდონის სტანსტედის აეროპორტი”
  • German: “EGSS”
  • German: “Flughafen London Stansted”
  • German: “Flughafen London-Stansted”
  • German: “London Stansted Airport”
  • German: “STN”
  • Greek: “Αεροδρόμιο Λονδίνου-Στάνστεντ”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה לונדון סטנסטד”
  • Hindi: “लंदन स्टैनस्टेड हवाई अड्डा”
  • Hungarian: “London–Stansted repülőtér”
  • Icelandic: “London Stansted-flugvöllur”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara London Stansted”
  • Irish: “Aerfort Londain Stansted”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Londra Stansted”
  • Italian: “London Stansted Airport”
  • Italian: “Londra Stansted”
  • Japanese: “スタンステッド空港”
  • Japanese: “ロンドン・スタンステッド空港”
  • Kazakh: “Лондон Станстед”
  • Korean: “런던 스탠스테드 공항”
  • Korean: “스탠스테드 공항”
  • Latvian: “Stanstedas lidosta”
  • Lithuanian: “Londono Stanstedo oro uostas”
  • Lithuanian: “Londono Stanstedo tarptautinis oro uostas”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Stansted London”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Stansted”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “London Stansted lufthavn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “London lufthamn, Stansted”
  • Norwegian: “London Stansted lufthavn”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه استانستد لندن”
  • Piemontese: “London Stansted Airport”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Londyn-Stansted”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Londres Stansted”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Londra Stansted”
  • Romanian: “London Stansted Airport”
  • Russian: “Лондон-Станстед”
  • Russian: “Станстед”
  • Serbian: “Аеродром Лондон-Стенстед”
  • Serbian: “Аеродром Стенстед”
  • Slovak: “Letisko Londýn Stansted”
  • Slovak: “Letisko Londýn-Stansted”
  • Slovenian: “EGSS”
  • Slovenian: “London Stansted Airport”
  • Slovenian: “STN”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Londres-Stansted”
  • Spanish: “Londres Aeropuerto Stansted”
  • Spanish: “Londres-Stansted”
  • Swedish: “London Stansted flygplats”
  • Swedish: “London-Stansted flygplats”
  • Swedish: “London-Stansteds flygplats”
  • Swedish: “Stansted Airport (flygplats i Storbritannien)”
  • Tatar: “Лондон-Станстед халыкара аэропорты”
  • Tatar: “Лондон-Станстед халыкара һава аланы”
  • Tatar: “Станстед”
  • Thai: “ท่าอากาศยานลอนดอนสแตนสเต็ด”
  • Turkish: “Londra Stansted Havalimanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Лондон-Станстед”
  • Urdu: “لندن سٹینسٹید ایئرپورٹ”
  • Uzbek: “London Stаsted Аiroport”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay London Stansted”
  • Welsh: “Maes Awyr Stansted”
  • Western Panjabi: “لندن سٹینسٹید ایئرپورٹ”
  • Yue Chinese: “倫敦史丹斯提機場”

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