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Great Dunmow

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Every leap year Great Dunmow holds the Flitch Trials, a custom running back centuries in which a mock court awards a flitch — a side — of bacon to any married couple who can prove they’ve not once regretted the match in a year and a day. The town itself is plaster cottages and a restored maltings on the River Chelmer.

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Photo of Hatfield Forest, a National Nature Reserve near Great Dunmow, Essex, eastern England.

Hatfield Forest

National Nature Reserve near Great Dunmow

A National Nature Reserve in Essex.

8.1 km W

Photo of Thaxted, a village in Essex, eastern England.Highlight

Thaxted

Village

One of England's best-preserved small towns, its medieval and Georgian houses climbing to a hilltop church and a restored guildhall, with a windmill on the edge.

9.3 km N · Essex

Photo of Mountfitchet Castle, a visitor attraction near Much Hadham, Essex, eastern England.Highlight

Mountfitchet Castle

Attraction near Much Hadham

A reconstructed Norman motte-and-bailey castle and Domesday village at Stansted Mountfitchet, roamed by deer and geese.

11.7 km W

Photo of Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill, a windmill in Essex, eastern England.Highlight

Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill

Windmill near Stansted Mountfitchet

A well-preserved tower mill of 1787 in the hilltop village of Stansted Mountfitchet, opened to visitors on advertised days.

12.1 km W

Photo of Finchingfield, a village in Essex, eastern England.Highlight

Finchingfield

Village

Said to be the most photographed village in Essex, a sweep of pastel cottages and a duck pond below a green topped by a surviving post mill.

12.5 km NE · Essex

Photo of Prior's Hall Barn, Widdington, a landmark near Saffron Walden, Essex, eastern England.

Prior's Hall Barn, Widdington

Landmark near Saffron Walden

Aisled oak barn of the mid-1400s at Widdington, among the finest medieval barns in the east of England, under a crown-post roof.

13.4 km NW