Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Braintree · Region: Eastern
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| Place | Gosfield |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Braintree |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.936508 |
| Longitude | 0.591951 |
| Place Type | Village |
Gosfield, a village within the Braintree district of Essex, presents a landscape of quiet, rolling fields, where the light often falls with a gentle, antique sheen. It lies 2.9 km west-south-west of Halstead (from Halstead: bearing 254°T, OS grid TL 782 296). The parish church, St. Margaret's, stands as a modest testament to centuries of local devotion, its stone weathered by the prevailing winds from the North Sea, a constant whisper of the wider world. Gosfield Hall, a grand manor house, graces the environs, its elegant facade hinting at a rich and varied past, its grounds a verdant expanse where ancient trees stand sentinel. The surrounding agricultural land, a patchwork of greens and golds under the broad Essex sky, continues to shape the character of Gosfield, a place where the seasons dictate the pace of life. Though no grand rivers traverse its heart, gentle watercourses wind through the meadows, mirroring the sky in their placid flow.
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Explore Gosfield, 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: 51.936508, 0.591951. 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 built | June 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |