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Excellent overnight accommodation for guests using Stansted Airport

Built in 1930's Latchmead is a family run B&B based in the heart of the Essex countryside.

We are ideally located for Stansted airport and the main line train station for London Liverpool Street and Cambridge.

We have a fantastic village pub, which is walking distance from Latchmead and offers excellent evening meals. Takeaway breakfast or early starter trays are available for guests leaving before 7.30 a.m.

We are a non-smoking establishment.

Located in the village of Little Hallingbury we have access to beautiful country walks, fishing, horse riding golf courses and much more and we are two miles from the town of Bishop's Stortford

Bishop's Stortford is situated 30 miles from London, 26 miles from Cambridge, and 31 miles from Newmarket. Bishop's Stortford and Hockerill are both situate on a rising ground, with the wharf or quay between the valley, where a number of warehouses are erected for the reception of all kinds of grain, but principally for malt. On the North side of the road leading from Hockerill to Stortford, upon an artificial hill, are the remains of a castle built in the time of William the Conqueror, and was originally called Waytemore-castle, now only Castle-hill. At that time a prison stood at the bottom of the hill, where soldiers mounted guard, and the rents of certain lands were given to the support of it.

William the Conqueror afterwards gave it to the bishop of London, (whence its name) and ever since that time the bishops of London have appropriated the money which is paid for Castle-guard to themselves. The castle and prison were both demolished by king John for the offence of the then bishop, who was one of those who published the Pope's interdict against the English nation.

The bishop was restored by the same prince, and satisfaction made him for demolishing the castle. The hill or keep of the castle is artificial, made of earth carried thither, with a breast-work at top of stones and mortar. A bank of earth leads from it through the moory ground, on which it was situated, to the North-east. There is a large wall from the top of the hill yet remaining.

The bishop's prison was in being in bishop Bonner's time; though all the old buildings are demolished. Where the prison stood an inn was erected, which still continues as a public house. The town itself is built in the form of a cross, the two principal streets crossing each other at right angles.

The area of Thorley has a road and school named after Dick Whittington who was a land owner.