Region: England · United Kingdom

Where to stay in Great Dunmow

Great Dunmow
Photo: William Metcalfe — CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Great Dunmow is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 11,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Great Dunmow, with about 78 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.

Places to stay in this guide
1
Best months
June to September
Nearest airport
STN9 km · London Stansted Airport
Currency
GBPpound sterling
Time zone
Europe/London
Plugs
G · 230 V
Emergency
112
Language
Cornish, English, Irish

About

About Great Dunmow

Great Dunmow or Dunmow is a historic market town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It lies to the north of the A120 road, approximately midway between Bishop's Stortford and Braintree, 5 miles (8 km) east of London Stansted Airport.

Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.

Things to do

What to see and do in Great Dunmow

See

  • Dunmow Flitch Trials
  • Old Town Hall
  • Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin

Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.

Where to stay

The best-rated places to stay in Great Dunmow

Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.

#Place to stayTypeRoomsGuest score
1Travelodge Stansted Great Dunmow
Chelmsford Road, Great Dunmow, CM6 1LW, UK
hotel
hotel784.3/5
1,594 reviews
2 km4 km

Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.

Where to stay

Where the places to stay in Great Dunmow are

33 places to stay in this guide with known coordinates, grouped by straight-line distance from the city centre (the point Wikidata gives for Great Dunmow), nearest first. Distance on foot or by road is longer.

Under 1 km from the centre

3 places

1–3 km from the centre

1 place

3–10 km from the centre

5 places

10 km or more from the centre

24 places

And 4 more, further out.

Where to stay

More hotels in Great Dunmow

32 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.

HotelTypeOpenedFrom centreWebsite
Axe And Compasses Inninn18.9 kmaxeandcompasses.co.uk
Bell And Feathers Inninn12.0 km
Coach And Horses Inninn17.0 km
Dog And Duck Inninn11.6 km
Fleur De Lys Inninn13.0 kmthefleurdelys.co.uk
Fox And Hounds Inninn18.0 kmbenefice-of-fishlake-sykehouse-kirkbramwith-fenwick-moss.co.uk
King's Head Hotelhotel0.3 km
Kings Arms Hotelhotel11.6 km
Queen's Head Inninn11.6 km
Saracens Head Public Househotel0.1 km
Swan Hotelhotel9.2 km
The Chequers Inninn13.3 km
The Coach and Horsesinn16.5 km
The Cock Inninn10.4 km
The Crown Inninn9.8 km
The Old Bellhotel12.1 km
Three Colts Inninn11.9 km
White Hart Inninn13.5 km
White Hart Inninn13.4 km
White Horse Inninn16.1 km
White Horse Inninn8.5 km
Yew Tree Inninn14.3 km
Bury Lodge Hotelhotel10.2 km
Coach And Horses Inninn14.2 km
Dunmow Guest Househotel0.5 km
Little Bullocks Farmhotel5.6 km
Novotel London Stansted Airporthotel10.3 km
OYO The Yew Tree
OYO Rooms
hotel14.3 km
Star Inninn8.9 km
The Cottage Guest Househotel12.1 km
The Jolly Waggoners Inninn14.7 km
The Old Inninn14.2 km

All 33 hotels in Great Dunmow, with their history and operators

When to go

The best time to visit Great Dunmow

The most comfortable months for a city stay in Great Dunmow are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 23 °C; October is the wettest, with about 64 mm of rain.

0°15°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec100 mm
Average highAverage lowRain per monthComfortable months

Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).

Great Dunmow travel calendar 2027: every day with public and school holidays, sunrise and sunset and the typical high and low (also as JSON).

Public holidays in United Kingdom, 2026

Shops and offices may close on these dates.

1 Jan · New Year's Day3 Apr · Good Friday4 May · May Day25 May · Spring Bank Holiday25 Dec · Christmas Day26 Dec · Boxing Day28 Dec · Boxing Day (observed)

Getting there

Getting to Great Dunmow: airports and arrival

The nearest airport with scheduled flights is London Stansted Airport (STN), about 8.8 km from the city centre in a straight line; London Southend Airport (SEN, 41 km) and London City Airport (LCY, 46 km) are also within reach.

Getting in

Stansted Airport lies roughly six miles west of the town. There are direct flights into Stansted from destinations in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, along with some domestic routes from Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newquay. Essex AirLink routes X20 and X30 connect Stansted Airport with Great Dunmow. Essex Bus route 42A also connects Stansted Airport with Great Dunmow. You can also fly into London Southend Airport from destinations in western and northern Europe. Essex AirLink route X30 connects Southend Airport with Great Dunmow.

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Good to know

Accessibility, parking and families in Great Dunmow

How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.

pets allowed
1

of 1 place

a workspace
1

of 1 place

breakfast
1

of 1 place

Questions

Great Dunmow: questions travellers ask

What are the best-rated hotels in Great Dunmow?

By published guest score: Travelodge Stansted Great Dunmow (4.3 / 5 · 1,594 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).

When is the best time to visit Great Dunmow?

The most comfortable months for a city stay in Great Dunmow are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 23 °C; October is the wettest, with about 64 mm of rain.

Which airport is closest to Great Dunmow?

The nearest airport with scheduled flights is London Stansted Airport (STN), about 8.8 km from the city centre in a straight line; London Southend Airport (SEN, 41 km) and London City Airport (LCY, 46 km) are also within reach.

What currency is used in Great Dunmow?

pound sterling (GBP).

Nearby

Destinations near Great Dunmow

Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; public holidays from python-holidays (MIT); places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.