Ugley is a small village and

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in the

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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 ...

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. It is about north from Stansted Mountfitchet, and situated between Saffron Walden and

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 ...

. Within the parish is the village of

Ugley Green Ugley Green is a small village in the non-metropolitan district, district of Uttlesford in Essex, England. It is approximately north-east from Bishops Stortford, and just to the west of the M11 motorway. The village is within the civil parish of ...

, to the south. Ugley was first recorded in 1041 as "Uggele". It appears in the ''

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'' as "Ugghelea". The name probably means "woodland clearing of a man named Ugga." Within Ugley there are several buildings of the 16th and 17th centuries. The Grade II* listed church, St Peter's, has a 13th-century

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and a Tudor brick tower.

Orford House Orford House is a country house in the small medieval hamlet of Ugley, Essex, England. History The house was built for Edward Russell, who went on to be First Lord of the Admiralty, in around 1700. It was enlarged by Isaac Whittington MP in a ...

is a Grade II* listed building built by Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, c.1700. The village's name has been noted on lists of unusual place names.

Cycling

There is a

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course which starts close to Ugley. The village is home to several bungalows or "huts" owned by long-established cycling clubs based in Essex and Greater London.Rouler.cc, https://rouleur.cc/editorial/winning-ugley/

Cycling

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