Duck End Mill, Finchingfield

Finchingfield is a village in the Braintree district in North Essex, England, a primarily rural area. It is approximately 6 miles (10 km) from Thaxted, farther from the larger towns of Saffron Walden and Braintree. Nearby villages include Great Bardfield, Great Sampford, and Wethersfield.

Spains Hall is an Elizabethan country house near Finchingfield in Essex, England. The building has been Grade I listed since 1953.The hall is named after Hervey de Ispania, who held the manor at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. From then until 2019, the land was continuously owned and occupied by three families – the de Ispania family, the Kempe family, who acquired it when Margery de Ispania married Nicholas Kempe in the early fifteenth century, and the Ruggles family (later the Ruggles-Brise family).

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 (900 m) length, and is 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast from the village of Finchingfield. The county town of Chelmsford is 16 miles (26 km) to the south.

Gibraltar Mill is a grade II listed Tower mill at Great Bardfield, Essex, England which has been converted to residential use.

Waltham's Cross is a hamlet in the Braintree district of Essex. It is located approximately equidistant from the villages of Finchingfield, Great Bardfield and Wethersfield.

Great Bardfield is a large village in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It is approximately 9 mi (14 km) northwest of the town of Braintree, and approximately 12 mi (19 km) southeast of Saffron Walden. The village came to national attention during the 1950s as home to the Great Bardfield Artists.

Cornish Hall End is on the B1057 road three miles north of Finchingfield and 4 miles (6 km) south of Steeple Bumpstead in the Braintree district of Essex, England. The main part of the village is a ribbon development of about 60 houses on either side of the road with many outlying farms, hamlets and individual houses. It is approximately 11 miles (18 km) from Braintree, Great Dunmow and Saffron Walden, and about 7 miles (11 km) from Haverhill in Suffolk. Cornish Hall End is served by a Parish Council which also represents Finchingfield. Its neighbouring villages are Finchingfield, Stambourne, and the Sampfords (Great Sampford and Little Sampford). Near the village at Herkstead Hall Farm is one of the sources of the River Colne, Essex. It was one of the places studied in the Survey of English Dialects. It is also situated in the small region where the flora Oxlip grows.

Wethersfield is a village and civil parish on the B1053 road in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It is near the River Pant. Wethersfield has a school, a social club, a fire station and one place of worship. Nearby settlements include the town of Braintree and the village of Finchingfield. The village probably gets its name from a Viking invader named Wuthha or Wotha, who controlled that particular "field" or clearing. Reverend Patrick Brontë, father of the Brontë sisters, was a young curate here in 1807, as was the Rev. John West, missionary to Canada, who married Harriet Atkinson here in 1807.MDP Wethersfield is the headquarters and training centre for the Ministry of Defence Police, located at the former RAF Station Wethersfield, used by the RAF, United States Army Air Force (USAAF) and the United States Air Force (USAF). This village is also one of The Hundred Parishes. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Beazley End, Blackmore End, and Brickkiln Green. Wethersfield, Essex is the namesake of Wethersfield, Connecticut.

Little Sampford is a village and a civil parish on the B1053 road, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 251. Until the 18th century the ecclesiastical parish was known as St Mary the Virgin, Sampford Parva.

Stambourne Green is a hamlet in Essex. A 19th century gazetteer describes it as being near another hamlet, Westley End, which no longer appears to exist. Nearby places include Stambourne, Steeple Bumpstead, Ridgewell, Cornish Hall End, Great Yeldham and Finchingfield.

Shalford is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. The village is approximately 4 miles (6 km) north from Braintree on the B1057 road. The parish includes the hamlets of Church End, Jasper's Green, and Shalford Green. The village has a primary school, a village hall, and a 14th-century pub (The George). At the southern end of the village is Stoneley Park, constructed in 1997 from an infilled sand pit and where trees were planted by local residents. The Tour de France cycle race passed through Shalford on the third and final day of its visit to England, on Monday 7 July 2014, en route from Cambridge to London.

Stambourne is a village and civil parish in the Braintree District in north Essex, England. The civil parish population at the 2011 Census was 409. Stambourne's closest neighbouring villages are Ridgewell, Toppesfield, Cornish Hall End and Great Yeldham.