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

7.5 km W

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.

7.7 km E · Essex

A medieval market town of pargeted houses and a maze on the common, named for the saffron crocus once grown here and crowned by the largest church in Essex.

10.3 km NW · Essex

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

11.4 km SW

Grand Jacobean palace in Capability Brown parkland.

11.6 km NW

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

12 km SW