Molehill Green Explained

Country:England
Static Image:Molehill Green - geograph.org.uk - 1221011.jpg
Coordinates:51.899°N 0.272°W
Official Name:Molehill Green
Population:117
Shire District:Uttlesford
Shire County:Essex
Region:East of England
Post Town:Bishop's Stortford
Postcode District:CM22
Postcode Area:CM
Dial Code:01279
Os Grid Reference:TL564247
Civil Parish:Takeley

Molehill Green is a hamlet in Takeley parish in Essex, England, close to the perimeter of London Stansted Airport, The hamlet consists of approximately forty houses and lies about north of Takeley village.[1]

It has one pub called The Three Horseshoes, a small village hall, a shop and a cricket club. Most of the houses are named rather than numbered, and it has only one named street, School Lane. The hamlet was originally called Morrells Green, which is now the name of a small housing estate in Takeley. The River Roding rises from a spring close to the cricket club.

Molehill Green is geographically in Essex but its former postal county is Hertfordshire. Nearby are the hamlets of Chapel End, Broxted, Bamber's Green and the village of Takeley.

There is another Molehill Green in Essex, in Felsted parish.[2]

Transport

Bus services allow travel to Bishop's Stortford, Saffron Walden, Elsenham, Henham and Stansted Mountfitchet.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Molehill Green, Uttlesford (CM22 6PH) . 21 April 2022 . GetOutside . Ordnance Survey.
  2. Web site: Molehill Green, Uttlesford (CM6 3JP) . GetOutside . Ordnance Survey . 21 April 2022.