Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Uttlesford · Region: Eastern
Explore Great Canfield, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Great Canfield 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Great Canfield, 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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| Place | Great Canfield |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Uttlesford |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.837935 |
| Longitude | 0.312089 |
| Place Type | Village |
Great Canfield remains a landscape of quiet endurance, where the heavy clay earth holds the memory of medieval industry and agricultural toil. It lies 3.2 miles south-west of Great Dunmow (from Great Dunmow: bearing 224°T, OS grid TL 593 180), and is situated west-north-west of High Roding village. The silhouette of the Canfield Castle and Associated Moated Enclosure rises from the fields, its embankments providing a verdant, silent contrast to the surrounding arable expanse. Sunlight traces the deep, grassy hollows of these ancient earthworks, marking where wooden fortifications once commanded the horizon. Further afield, the River Roding carves a subtle, winding path through the northern terrain, feeding the low-lying meadows with a persistent, silver presence. Great Canfield preserves a character defined by this slow, rhythmic shifting of seasons across open, expansive plains. The architecture of the parish church and scattered timber-framed dwellings reflects a long-standing harmony with the immediate soil. Here, the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered, inviting a stillness that is rarely disturbed by the haste of the modern world.
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Explore Great Canfield, 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: 51.837935, 0.312089. 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 | August 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. |