Molehill Green is a hamlet in

Takeley __NOTOC__ Takeley is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. History A number of theories have arisen over the origin of the village's name. One believes the village's name was a corruption from the "Teg-Ley" o ...

parish in Essex, England, close to the perimeter of

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, The hamlet consists of approximately forty houses and lies about north of Takeley village. It has one pub called ''The Three Horseshoes'', a small village hall, a shop and a cricket club. Most of the houses are named rather than numbered, and it has only one named street, School Lane. The hamlet was originally called Morrells Green, which is now the name of a small housing estate in Takeley. The

River Roding The River Roding () is a river that rises at Molehill Green, Essex, England, then flows south through Essex and London and forms Barking Creek as it reaches the River Thames. Course The river leaves Molehill Green and passes through or near a ...

rises from a spring close to the cricket club. Molehill Green is geographically in

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but its former postal county is

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. Nearby are the hamlets of Chapel End, Broxted, Bamber's Green and the village of Takeley. There is another Molehill Green in Essex, in Felsted parish.

Transport

Bus services allow travel to Bishop's Stortford, Saffron Walden, Elsenham, Henham and Stansted Mountfitchet.

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