Great Sampford is a village and

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on the junction of the B1053 and

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s in the north-west of the

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. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 586. The village includes a primary school, two places of worship and one public house. It is located three miles to the north-east of the town of Thaxted and eight miles to the south-east of

Saffron Walden Saffron Walden is a market town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, north of Bishop's Stortford, south of Cambridge and north of London. It retains a rural appearance and some buildings of the medieval period. The population was 15, ...

. It used to have a RAF airfield called

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. The River Pant runs through the south of the village. It is connected to Hempstead by Howe Lane. The village contains two churches - the

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, which also owns a small hall adjacent to the property, used by the community for the pre-school; and also a

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parish church, St Michael's. Also in the village is a green and cricket club. Next to the green is a playground which includes a skatepark, donated by the National Lottery Fund, a zip wire funded by an Uttlesford District Council Community Grant, a small football pitch and a tennis court.

Governance

Great Sampford is part of the electoral ward called The Sampfords. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 1,900.

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