Fyfield, Essex

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Fyfield
Essex
A millpond on the River Roding at Fyfield, Essex, England 02.jpg
River Roding millpond below Willingale Road
Location
Grid reference: TL568069
Location: 51°44’21"N, 0°16’20"E
Data
Population: 796  (2011[1])
Post town: Ongar
Postcode: CM5
Dialling code: 01277
Local Government
Council: Epping Forest
Parliamentary
constituency:
Brentwood and Ongar
Website: fyfield-village.org

Fyfield is a village and parish in the Ongar Hundred of Essex.

The village is situated on the B184 road, approximately three miles} north-east of Chipping Ongar, seven miles east of Harlow and eight miles west of Chelmsford.

The River Roding flows south through the village. Fyfield Mill is 180 yds below Willingale Road at the south of the village. The watermill, which sits at the head of a mill pond on the River Roding, dates to the late 13th century and is a Grade-II listed building.[2]

Fyfield Hall on Willingale Road is the oldest inhabited timber-framed building in England.[3] The house dates chiefly to the mid–13th century, contains an aisled hall dated 1140, and is Grade I listed.[4]

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