What's on
Here we list some activities that relate to local heritage, countryside, wildlife, exercise, culture or conservation. Please also see the Attractions pages for places that are open on a regular basis. If you are tempted by one of these specific places or events, we encourage you to make a full day of your visit. You might like to print off a nearby walk or the introduction to the parish and see if you can track down some more of its heritage. You are advised to check with the venue or event website for any changes to times, etc displayed here
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Guided Tour of Finchingfield Guildhall
Once ‘at risk’, this Grade I guildhall from the 15th and 17th centuries is owned by the village.
Location: Finchingfield
Details from: Buy tickets – Finchingfield Guildhall
Ensemble 360 String Quartet
Quartet music includes Barber’s famous Adagio and favourites by Tchaikovsky and Borodin
Location: Stansted Mountfitchet (St John’s Church)
Details from: music@stansted
Dunmow Art Group and Dunmow Camera Club exhibition
Free entry, refreshements for sale
Location: Stebbing (St. Mary’s Church)
Details from: Dunmow Art Group
Nuthampstead Airfield Museum Open
The story of the US 8th Air Force 398th Bomb Group and 55th Fighter Group
Location: Nuthampstead (behind The Woodman Inn)
Details from: Nuthampstead Airfield Museum
Dunmow Art Group and Dunmow Camera Club exhibition
Free entry, refreshements for sale
Location: Stebbing (St. Mary’s Church)
Details from: Dunmow Art Group
Beers, Bread and Cheese
An evening with cheesemonger and affineur Ned Palmer
Location: The Old Sun Inn, Saffron Walden
Details from: Old Sun Inn
Thaxted Arts & Crafts Fair
A high quality Arts and Crafts fair held in the beautiful Thaxted Parish Church
Location: Thaxted Church
Details from: Facebook
Wadesmill Wander
A leisurely 7½ mile walk with East Hert Rambles
Location: Wadesmill
Gardens of Easton Lodge: Autumn & Halloween open day
Spooky trail, family games and rock choir
Location: Little Easton
Details from: What’s On at The Gardens of Easton Lodge
Thaxted Festival 2027 Launch Event
Members of the BBC Singers, Christopher Weston, piano and Iain Farrington, piano
Location: Thaxted Parish Church
Details from: 2027 Season Launch | Thaxted Festival
A talk on the history of nursery rhymes
Ugley Women’s Institute monthly meeting
Location: Ugley Village Hall
Details from: Essex WI
Newport & District Flower Club Meeting
Also known as The Ugley Bunch
Location: Ugley Village Hall
Details from: Facebook
Organ recital by Jonathan Scott
Free entry; retiring collection
Location: Saffron Walden St Mary’s Church
Details from: St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden : Lunchtime Recitals
Nuthampstead Airfield Museum Open
The story of the US 8th Air Force 398th Bomb Group and 55th Fighter Group
Location: Nuthampstead (behind The Woodman Inn)
Details from: Nuthampstead Airfield Museum
Much Hadham and westward
A leisurely 8½ mile walk with East Hert Rambles
Location: Much Hadham
WW2 – Role of the Home Guard and Stories of Evacuees in Berden
Berden Church Talks
Location: Berden (St Nicholas Church)
Details from: Berden Heritage
An Evening of James Bond Themes at Thaxted Church
An orchestral experience with Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra and vocalists
Location: Thaxted Church
Details from: Friends Of Thaxted Church
Circular walk from Great Dunmow
A leisurely 8 mile walk with East Hert Rambles
Location: Great Dunmow
New Cambridge Singers
Scarlatti Stabat Mater and the music of seventeenth-century Rome
Location: Linton (Church of St Mary the Virgin)
Details from: events@stmaryslinton.org.uk
I Dodici Choir
A leading London-based vocal ensemble
Location: Stansted Mountfitchet (St John’s Church)
Details from: music@stansted
Thaxted Festival 2027 bookings open
General booking will open for 2027 season
Details from: Thaxted Music Lovers | Thaxted Festival
A Christmas Celebration with Nancy May
Classical crossover soprano
Location: Shalford, Essex (St Andrews Church)
Details from: Nancy May
Gerard Flotats (cello)
A young Catalan cellist supported by the Countess of Munster scheme
Location: Stansted Mountfitchet (St John’s Church)
Details from: music@stansted
“The Life of Eric Ravillious, WWII war artist”
Talk by Douglas Coe. £3 for non-members.
Location: Stansted Mountfitchet (Day Centre, CM24 8AQ)
Details from: Stansted History Society
Ruth Aplin Trio
“Great Ladies of Jazz”: classics by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Carole King and more
Location: Stansted Mountfitchet (St John’s Church)
Details from: music@stansted