Stansted Mountfitchet Hotels

Stansted Mountfitchet is a village and civil parish in the county of , England, near the Hertfordshire border, 30 miles north of London. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 5,532. The village is served by Stansted Mountfitchet railway station. Stansted Mountfitchet is situated in north-west Essex near the Hertfordshire border and a few miles north of Bishops Stortford. BAA Stansted Airport, a major airport and the third-busiest in the UK is just two miles from the village. The village contains two primary schools and one high school, the latter of which was recently renamed the Mountfitchet Mathematics and Computing College. Stansted was a Saxon settlement and pre-dates the Norman invasion of England, although it was not 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.