Finchingfield is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of North Essex, England, a primarily rural area. It is approximately 6 miles from Thaxted, with the nearest larger towns being Saf

Colonel Sir John Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet was Lord Lieutenant of Essex from 1958 to 1978, and was the first pro-chancellor of Essex University from 1964 to 1979. He was also a president of