Stansted Mountfitchet
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Stansted Mountfitchet is an English village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, near the Hertfordshire border, 35 miles (56 km) north of London. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 5,533, increasing to 6,011 at the 2011 census. By the 2021 census it had increased to 8621. [1] The village is served by Stansted Mountfitchet railway station.
Stansted Mountfitchet | |
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Stansted Mountfitchet | |
Location within Essex | |
Population | 8,621 (2021)[1] |
OS grid reference | TL5124 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | STANSTED |
Postcode district | CM24 |
Dialling code | 01279 |
Police | Essex |
Fire | Essex |
Ambulance | East of England |
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51.898°N 0.198°E / 51.898; 0.198 |
Stansted Mountfitchet is situated in north-west Essex near the Hertfordshire border and 3 miles (5 km) north of Bishop's Stortford. Stansted Airport is 2 miles (3 km) from the village. The village has three primary schools (Bentfield Primary School, St Mary's (C of E) Primary School and Magna Carta Primary Academy) and one high school which was renamed the Forest Hall School in September, 2013.