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Chickney Essex Map

Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Uttlesford · Region: Eastern

Explore Chickney, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Chickney map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.

Interactive Map of Chickney, Essex

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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Chickney, Essex, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.

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PlaceChickney
Traditional CountyEssex
District / BoroughUttlesford
RegionEastern
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude51.924751
Longitude0.286718
Place TypeHamlet

About Chickney

Chickney reveals itself as a quiet assemblage of timber-framed dwellings and ancient earth, holding the weight of centuries in its deep-set foundations. It lies 3.1 miles south-west of Thaxted (from Thaxted: bearing 231°T, OS grid TL 573 276), and is situated north-west of Broxted village. The local landscape remains defined by the slow, deliberate movement of Tilty Brook, which meanders through the low fields to the north-east like a silver thread caught in the rough weave of the Essex countryside. Beyond the hedgerows, the sprawling canopy of Elsenham Woods Sssi rises as a dense, vital lung, its forty-four hectares providing a sanctuary for flora that has outlived the changing fortunes of the surrounding farmland. Chickney preserves a singular, solitary character, where the light at dusk catches the flint and rubble of the parish church with a pale, ethereal clarity. The roads here are narrow and unhurried, tracing the contours of a terrain that has long prioritised the turning of the plough over the haste of modern transit. Even now, the horizon seems to hold the ghost of medieval patterns, where the land once supported the monastic interests of nearby religious houses. To walk the perimeter of Chickney is to acknowledge a stillness that defies the encroaching noise of the wider world, grounding the spirit in the honest, unadorned reality of the soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Tilty Brook (River) — 0.6 mi, 017° NNE
  • Broxted Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.1 mi, 021° NNE
  • Elsenham Woods Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.3 mi, 211° SSW · 44 ha
  • Old Hole (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.8 mi, 335° NNW
  • Tilty Abbey (Scheduled Monument) — 1.9 mi, 112° ESE · 5 ha
  • Henham Hall Moated Site (Scheduled Monument) — 1.9 mi, 292° WNW
  • Site Of Waltham Hall (Scheduled Monument) — 2.1 mi, 190° S · 3 ha
  • Cox Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 2.4 mi, 136° SE
  • Perryfield Ponds (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.5 mi, 144° SE
  • Easton Lodge (site of) (Historic Ruins) — 2.6 mi, 152° SSE
  • Motte (Castle) — 2.6 mi, 123° ESE
  • Easton Lodge (Historic Park or Garden) — 2.7 mi, 150° SSE · 16 ha
  • John Webb's Windmill (Attraction) — 3.0 mi, 050° NE
  • Great Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.1 mi, 144° SE
  • Tye Green Brook (River) — 3.1 mi, 231° SW
  • Margaret Gardens (Park) — 3.2 mi, 050° NE
  • Hall'S Quarry Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 3.3 mi, 275° W
  • Prior's Hall Barn (Museum) — 3.4 mi, 321° NW
  • Debden (Public Artwork) — 3.8 mi, 345° NNW
  • Stansted Mountfitchet Castle (Castle) — 3.9 mi, 247° WSW
  • House on the Hill Museum (Museum) — 3.9 mi, 248° WSW
  • Jubilee Arch (1935) (Monument) — 4.1 mi, 252° WSW
  • Parsonage Downs (Park) — 4.2 mi, 133° SE
  • Dunmow Maltings (Museum) — 4.9 mi, 137° SE
  • Hatfield Forest (Forest / Woodland) — 5.1 mi, 207° SSW
  • Smithfield Bottom (Valley) — 5.1 mi, 353° N
  • Shell House (Museum) — 5.3 mi, 205° SSW
  • Clopton Hall (Historic Ruins) — 5.5 mi, 145° SE
  • Waytemore Castle (remains) (Castle) — 6.4 mi, 235° SW
  • Great Bardfield Cottage Museum (Museum) — 6.5 mi, 076° ENE

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About This Chickney Map Page

Explore Chickney, Essex, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.924751, 0.286718. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.

Page builtAugust 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.