Thaxted Hall

Walden Road, Thaxted (Nr. Stansted) CM6 2RE

Breakfast is available between 07:00 and 09:30 daily. At an additional cost, guests can choose a light continental, self-service buffet breakfast or a full cooked English breakfast (which must be pre-ordered in advance).

Woodlarks is the hotel’s own on-site restaurant and guests receive a 10% discount on dining in the restaurant. Lunch is available from 12:00 to 14:30 and dinner is served from 18:30 to 21:30 (with last orders taken at 20.45). The restaurant is open to the public, as well as hotel guests, and offers fine cuisine in pleasant, smoke-free surroundings.

Built in the 18th century on the site of the dismantled Boyton End windmill, the hotel now offers contemporary facilities in traditional surroundings.

The hotel can cater for all occasions and is a great venue for all kinds of celebrations, including weddings, banquets, parties, dinner dances and all manner of get-togethers. The impressive Audley Suite has a total capacity of 114 seated guests, while the Kentwell Suite is suitable for smaller groups. Both suites have efficient licensed bar facilities with table service available, for extra convenience. The hotel also offers professional-standard public address systems and full stage lighting systems for after dinner speeches and cabaret.

The hotel’s facilities are also ideal for conferences and for corporate use, with a full range of audiovisual and recording equipment and 3 separate rooms that can be used for business meetings, conferences, seminars, training courses and business events.

Guests can pay a one-off parking fee, which not only entitles them to park at the hotel for an unlimited period, it also includes luxury transfers to and from Stansted Airport (with a journey time of approximately 12 minutes). Guests wishing to take advantage of this service should supply their flight details (flight numbers, dates and times) when making their reservation, either by using the comments field when booking or by contacting the hotel directly, using the contact details supplied on their confirmation email. While vehicles are parked at the owner's risk, every reasonable safeguard is assured.

Thaxted Hall is ideally situated for touring East Anglia and the ancient town itself is steeped in history. This quintessentially English country town is over a thousand years old and pre-dates the Domesday Book. There is much to see and enjoy in the town, including the oft-sketched Cutlers Guildhall, the brightly distempered medieval houses that line the cobbled streets, John Webb’s carefully restored windmill with adjoining picnic area, the bustling market and the thatched almhouses. The town is also home to the cottage of the famous highwayman Dick Turpin and the house in Town Street where Gustav Holst composed part of his Planets suite. With its magnificent spire visible for miles, the parish church stands sentinel over all it surveys. Thaxted is a world-renowned centre for Morris Dancing and also hosts regular displays of jousting, battle re-enactments and medieval fayres. Many well-known musicians and choristers from the farthest flung corners of the Christian world appear regularly in the parish church, their performances enhanced by its near-perfect acoustics.

Beyond Thaxted itself, yet still within easy reach, there are many other attractions and places to visit, such as Audley End House in Saffron Walden, the picturesque village of Finchingfield, the beautiful historic university city of Cambridge and the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. Stately homes, art galleries, antiques centres, places of interest and the like abound in the surrounding area and, with Thaxted Hall as a comfortable and relaxing base, you can explore them all.

By Air:
The hotel is approximately 12 km from London Stansted Airport. The parking fee not only entitles guests to park at the hotel for an unlimited period, it also includes luxury transfers to and from Stansted Airport (with a journey time of approximately 12 minutes). Guests wishing to take advantage of this service should supply their flight details (flight numbers, dates and times) when making their reservation, either by using the comments field when booking or by contacting the hotel directly, using the contact details supplied on their confirmation email.

By Car (from the south):
- From the M11 motorway, take the exit at junction 8A (following the signs for London Stansted Airport and the A120 East).
- Follow the A120 towards Colchester.
- Exit the A120 following the signs for Great Dunmow and continue to the town centre.
- Turn left onto the B184 (Rosemary Lane), signposted Thaxted.
- Continue for 6 miles. Pass through Thaxted, bearing right at the top of the hill.
- Thaxted Hall is on the right-hand side after about a quarter of a mile, just beyond the sports field.
- Turn right at the junction for the B1051 (signposted Great Sampford and Haverhill), then immediately right into the drive.

By Car (from the north):
- From the M11 motorway, take the exit at junction 10 and, at the top of the slip road, take the left exit onto the A505.
- Turn right at the second roundabout onto the A1301, following the signs towards Saffron Walden.
- Pass under the trunk road at Stump Cross and continue on for 6 miles on the B184 into Saffron Walden.
- Turn left at the traffic lights just beyond the church.
- Follow the one-way system, keeping straight ahead until reaching the traffic lights, then turning right onto Thaxted Road (B184).
- Thaxted Hall is on the left-hand side after about 5 miles.
- Turn left at the junction for the B1051 (signposted Great Sampford and Haverhill), then immediately turn right into the drive.

By Train:
The nearest train stations are Stansted Airport and Newport, near Saffron Walden.