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Where is this in Essex?

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Gonnagetgoing · 05/03/2022 16:30

So I have a memory about a village in Essex I visited as a child. I was trying to recall where in Essex but I can’t think and have lost touch with people who lived there.

It had those weatherboard farmhouses, a church with cricket field and a bakery in village that baked fresh hot cross buns.

We visited a village/town with those houses on stilts by seaside.

My friend went to Felsted School.

When I look at Dunmow it doesn’t look quite right, I see this as far more villagey…

Who can solve my mystery?

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ShebaQueen · 05/03/2022 16:44

Maybe Thaxted OP?

lostinabook · 05/03/2022 16:47

Was thinking Thaxted but tbh describes a few places. I grew up in Elsenham one of the less pretty villages

Maybe finchingfield? That is super picturesque Or Stebbing

fussychica · 05/03/2022 16:48

Stock?

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Gonnagetgoing · 05/03/2022 18:36

I think it’s Thaxted.

Was looking at great Dunmow but doesn’t ring any bells! Maybe I’ll just drive there one day!

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the80sweregreat · 05/03/2022 18:38

Finchingfield ?
That is a a very pretty place.

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Gonnagetgoing · 05/03/2022 18:39

@lostinabook

Was thinking Thaxted but tbh describes a few places. I grew up in Elsenham one of the less pretty villages

Maybe finchingfield? That is super picturesque Or Stebbing

@lostinabook could be Stebbing!
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Gonnagetgoing · 05/03/2022 18:41

@the80sweregreat

Finchingfield ? That is a a very pretty place.
@the80sweregreat - definitely not Finchingfield - far too picturesque!
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Gonnagetgoing · 05/03/2022 18:43

@ShebaQueen

Maybe Thaxted OP?
@ShebaQueen could be Thaxted.

@fussychica - don’t think Stock but could be…

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dayswithaY · 05/03/2022 22:43

Is the village by the sea?

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Gonnagetgoing · 06/03/2022 07:53

@dayswithaY - no not by the sea. But approx 20 - 30 mins drive from the sea with those houses.

It seemed to me, I was 8 onwards til about 11 that it was a tiny village, I literally recall a handful of shops near the farmhouse my family friend had bought with a tiny village bakery freshly making hot cross buns. Then a church nearby and a cricket green. I had no idea my friend went to boarding school so near but he did.

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dayswithaY · 06/03/2022 08:04

Could it be the village of Felstead? Pleshey, or Alresford? It could probably be a village somewhere on the Blackwater Estuary.

daisyfraser · 02/10/2022 21:27

Ingatestone? I've just left there after living there for a year. It has all those features. The cricket ground is next to the church.

Facecream · 02/10/2022 21:59

Great Bentley?

beetlebrain · 02/10/2022 22:00

Coggeshall?

EmmaH2022 · 02/10/2022 22:06

I feel like it might be Saffron Walden but that’s too far from Felstead School? But if you went years ago, the drive was half the time it is now.

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