Debden Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Debden, in the

Uttlesford Uttlesford is a local government district in Essex, England. Its council is based in the market town of Saffron Walden. At the 2011 Census, the population of the district was 79,443. Other notable settlements include Great Dunmow, Elmdon, Stebbi ...

district of

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

, England and west from the town of

Thaxted Thaxted is a town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of north-west Essex, England. The town is in the valley of the River Chelmer, not far from its source in the nearby village of Debden, and is 97 metres (318 feet) above sea level (whe ...

. It is centred around a crossroads on the main Debden to Thaxted road where the road from

Henham __NOTOC__ Henham, or Henham-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is situated north from London Stansted Airport. The parish includes the hamlets of Little Henham and Pledgdon Green ...

and

Hamperden End Hamperden End is a hamlet located to the east of the village of Widdington, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. Another nearby village is Debden Green Debden Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Debden, Uttlesford, ...

intersects at a point known as Debden Cross. A byway or green lane, called Pepples Lane, connects Debden Cross with

Wimbish Wimbish is a village and civil parish within Uttlesford, in Essex, England. The first recorded mention of the village was in 1042, when it was referred to as Winebisc. It was subsequently referred to as Wimbeis in the Domesday Book Domesday ...

, to the north. The source of the

River Chelmer The River Chelmer is a river that flows entirely through the county of Essex, England, running from the northwest of the county through Chelmsford to the River Blackwater near Maldon. Course The source of the river is in the parish of Debden i ...

rises to the west of Debden Green in Rowney Wood. Until the 1980s, Debden Green had its own post office and grocery store. There are 12 Grade II listed buildings in the hamlet. A windmill once stood in Monks Lane. The

post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. Its defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. All p ...

was built around 1719, possibly to replace an earlier mill, and was demolished during the First World War or immediately afterwards. Debden Green used to have a slaughter house (now Pages Farm). The single track road connecting Pepples Lane with Debden Cross was known locally as Slaughterhouse Lane.

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