Ugley
Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Ugley is a small village and civil parish in the non-metropolitan district of Uttlesford in Essex, England. It is about Template:Convert north from Stansted Mountfitchet, and situated between Saffron Walden and Bishop's Stortford. Within the parish is the village of Ugley Green, Template:Convert to the south.
Ugley was first recorded in 1041 as "Uggele". It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Ugghelea", in the ancient hundred of Claverling.<ref>Open Domesday: Ugley. Accessed 10 June 2023.</ref> 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.<ref>Template:National Heritage List for England</ref> Orford House is a Grade II* listed building built by Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, c.1700.<ref>Template:National Heritage List for England</ref>
The village's name has been noted on lists of unusual place names.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Symons2012">Template:Cite book</ref> There have been many claims of the existence of an Ugley Women’s Institute, seemingly without strong confirmatory evidence.
CyclingEdit
There is a cycling time trial course which starts close to Ugley. The village is home to several bungalows or "huts" owned by long-established cycling clubs based in Essex and Greater London.<ref>Rouler.cc, https://rouleur.cc/editorial/winning-ugley/</ref>
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