Stansted Mountfitchet occurs as village in the county of Essex, England, near a Hertfordshire border, 30 miles northward of London.

Stansted was the Saxon settlement (the title means 'stony place' within Saxon) & pre-dates a Norman invasion of England, although it wasn't until this invasion that it inherited a postfix Mountfitchet, from either the Norman baron world health organization settled there. The little remnant of his castle remains, as much as which the reconstruction of an early Norman castle has been built. Believed to keep around been fortified originally in the Iron Age, and afterward per Romans and Vikings, construction of the Norman castle began in 1066.

A village as well boasts a big toy museum in the globe, adjacent to the castle.

A village is upright two or three miles out of London Stansted Airport, London's third airport, & is accessible by road from either Junction 8 of the M11 motorway, near Bishop's Stortford and direct by train from London Liverpool Street.