Mountnessing

Mountnessing

Mountnessing Windmill
Mountnessing
 Mountnessing shown within Essex
OS grid referenceTQ624971
Civil parishMountnessing
DistrictBrentwood
Shire countyEssex
RegionEast
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Brentwood
Postcode district CM15
Dialling code 01277
Police Essex
Fire Essex
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
UK ParliamentBrentwood and Ongar
List of places
UK
England
Essex

Coordinates: 51°38′57″N 0°20′46″E / 51.64924°N 0.34599°E / 51.64924; 0.34599

Mountnessing is a village in the Borough of Brentwood in south Essex, England. It is situated to the north-east of Brentwood, south-west of Ingatestone. A large proportion of the houses are situated on the Roman Road (formerly the A12 road until the village was bypassed in the 1970s) between Brentwood and Ingatestone. The village is approximately equidistant between the two closest railway stations of Shenfield and Ingatestone.

Features of Mountnessing are its windmill and the parish church of St Giles. An annual village fete in held in July. In the "Windmill" field there is also a village hall, cricket pitch, football pitches and tennis courts. It has three pubs, The George and Dragon, The Plough and the Prince of Wales, a butcher's and a hairdressers.

There is a primary school, Mountnessing C of E, on Roman Road.

St.Giles church is located mid-way between Mountnessing and Billericay.

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