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About Stansted Mountfitchet   Stansted Mountfitchet is a village and civil parish in the county of Essex, England, near the Hertfordshire border, 30 miles north of London. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 5,533. Stansted Mountfitchet is situated in north-west Essex on the border of Hertfordshire's Bishops Stortford. BAA Stansted Airport, a major airport and the third-busiest in the UK is just 2 miles from the village. The village contains 2 primary schools and one high school. The High School is now called Mountfitchet Mathematics and Computing College. Stansted was a Saxon settlement (the name means 'stony place' in Saxon) and pre-dates the Norman invasion of England, although it wasn't until this invasion that it inherited the suffix Mountfitchet, from the Norman baron who settled there. A small remnant of his castle remains, around which a reconstruction of an early Norman castle has been built. Believed to have been fortified originally in the Iron Age, and subsequently by the Romans and Vikings, construction of the Norman castle began in 1066. The village also boasts the House on the Hill Toy Museum, which is the largest toy museum in Europe. Located next to the castle, it opened in 1991 and holds over 80,000 toys, mostly from the 1950s to the 1980s. A working windmill built in 1787 is in the village, and is open to the public once a month. During the Second World War, the US Air Force constructed an airfield near the village. After the war ended, it was subsequently taken over by the Government and developed as a commercial airport. Today, BAA Stansted Airport is accessible by road from Junction 8 of the M11 motorway, near Bishop's Stortford and direct by train from London Liverpool Street.                       Home | Contact Us | Bookmark Us

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