Ugley
village in Essex, England
Ugley is a village and civil parish in Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It is about 2 miles (3 km) north of Stansted Mountfitchet, and situated between Saffron Walden and Bishop's Stortford. Within the parish is the village of Ugley Green, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the south of Ugley itself. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 468.
Ugley was first recorded in 1041 as "Uggele". It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Ugghelea", in the ancient hundred of Claverling. The name probably means "woodland clearing of a man named Ugga." Within Ugley there are several buildings of the 16th and 17th centuries. The Grade II* listed church, St Peter's, has a 13th-century nave and a Tudor brick tower. Orford House is a Grade II* listed building built by Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, c.1700.
The village's name has been noted on lists of unusual place names.
The public source identifies “Ugley” as village in Essex, England. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ugley, village and Essex.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1807904. Authority coordinates are 51.934, 0.210. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 1041, 1086 and 1700.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ugley” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.