Flitch Green is a
civil parish in the
Uttlesford district of
Essex, England. It consists of a housing development built outside the village of
Little Dunmow. Flitch Green is near the
A120 dual carriageway, the village of
Felsted
Felsted (sometimes spelt Felstead) is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Bannister Green, Bartholomew Green, Causeway End, Coblers Green, Cock Green, Frenches Gre ...
and the town of
Great Dunmow, the last of which is about away. Flitch Green is on the site of an old
sugar beet
A sugar beet is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose and which is grown commercially for sugar production. In plant breeding, it is known as the Altissima cultivar group of the common beet (''Beta vulgaris''). Together wi ...
factory.
The development, originally named 'Oakwood Park', is next to the
Flitch Way Flitch can refer to the following things:
* Flitch (wood), a piece of wood for resawing into smaller pieces
* Flitch (bacon), a side of unsliced bacon
* The flitch trials of Great Dunmow
* Flitch beam
A flitch beam (or flitched beam) is a compoun ...
, a public right of way between
Bishop's Stortford
Bishop's Stortford is a historic market town in Hertfordshire, England, just west of the M11 motorway on the county boundary with Essex, north-east of central London, and by rail from Liverpool Street station. Stortford had an estimated po ...
and
Braintree where the
old railway line used to run. The name 'Flitch' refers to the local
Flitch of bacon custom. Building of Flitch Green began in 2001. The population (in December 2008) was 1,200, increasing to 2,190 at the 2011 Census.
Flitch Green was granted parish status in November 2008 in an order made by the district council; the order became effective on 1 April 2009. It had previously been in the parish of
Little Dunmow.
Flitch Green Primary School, which serves the estate, was opened in September 2008. The primary school converted to The Flitch Green Academy in 2011.
References
External links
*
Flitch Green Parish Council
Civil parishes in Essex
Villages in Essex
Uttlesford
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