Region: England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Great Dunmow

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 stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Stansted Great Dunmow hotel | 78 | 4.3/5 1,594 reviews |
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.
3 places
- Saracens Head Public House · 0.1 km
- King's Head Hotel · 0.3 km
- Dunmow Guest House · 0.5 km
5 places
- Little Bullocks Farm · 5.6 km
- White Horse Inn · 8.5 km
- Star Inn · 8.9 km
- Swan Hotel · 9.2 km
- The Crown Inn · 9.8 km
24 places
- Bury Lodge Hotel · 10.2 km
- Novotel London Stansted Airport · 10.3 km
- The Cock Inn · 10.4 km
- Dog And Duck Inn · 11.6 km
- Kings Arms Hotel · 11.6 km
- Queen's Head Inn · 11.6 km
- Three Colts Inn · 11.9 km
- Bell And Feathers Inn · 12.0 km
- The Old Bell · 12.1 km
- The Cottage Guest House · 12.1 km
- Fleur De Lys Inn · 13.0 km
- The Chequers Inn · 13.3 km
- White Hart Inn · 13.4 km
- White Hart Inn · 13.5 km
- Coach And Horses Inn · 14.2 km
- The Old Inn · 14.2 km
- Yew Tree Inn · 14.3 km
- OYO The Yew Tree · 14.3 km
- The Jolly Waggoners Inn · 14.7 km
- White Horse Inn · 16.1 km
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.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Axe And Compasses Inn | 18.9 km | |
| Bell And Feathers Inn | 12.0 km | |
| Coach And Horses Inn | 17.0 km | |
| Dog And Duck Inn | 11.6 km | |
| Fleur De Lys Inn | 13.0 km | |
| Fox And Hounds Inn | 18.0 km | |
| King's Head Hotel | 0.3 km | |
| Kings Arms Hotel | 11.6 km | |
| Queen's Head Inn | 11.6 km | |
| Saracens Head Public House | 0.1 km | |
| Swan Hotel | 9.2 km | |
| The Chequers Inn | 13.3 km | |
| The Coach and Horses | 16.5 km | |
| The Cock Inn | 10.4 km | |
| The Crown Inn | 9.8 km | |
| The Old Bell | 12.1 km | |
| Three Colts Inn | 11.9 km | |
| White Hart Inn | 13.5 km | |
| White Hart Inn | 13.4 km | |
| White Horse Inn | 16.1 km | |
| White Horse Inn | 8.5 km | |
| Yew Tree Inn | 14.3 km | |
| Bury Lodge Hotel | 10.2 km | |
| Coach And Horses Inn | 14.2 km | |
| Dunmow Guest House | 0.5 km | |
| Little Bullocks Farm | 5.6 km | |
| Novotel London Stansted Airport | 10.3 km | |
| OYO The Yew Tree OYO Rooms | 14.3 km | |
| Star Inn | 8.9 km | |
| The Cottage Guest House | 12.1 km | |
| The Jolly Waggoners Inn | 14.7 km | |
| The Old Inn | 14.2 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.
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.
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.
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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.