Editing Thaxted (section)

==Transport==
[[File:Thaxted railway station (postcard).jpg|thumb|Thaxted Railway Station, which closed in 1952.]]
Thaxted once lay on the busy [[A130 road|A130 trunk road]] from Chelmsford to Cambridge which brought large trucks through the centre of the town past the Guildhall and Church. In the 1980s, this route was downgraded to become the B184 road<ref>{{cite web |title=B184 |url=https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=B184 |website=Sabre |access-date=18 August 2023}}</ref> following completion of the [[M11 motorway]] and the [[A120 road|A120 dual carriageway]]. Ordnance Survey maps show a Roman road running north to south through Thaxted.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Map of Braintree & Saffron Walden|url=https://shop.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/map-of-braintree-saffron-walden/|access-date=2020-10-04|website=Ordnance Survey Limited|language=en}}</ref>

Thaxted is connected to the local towns and villages, as well as to [[London Stansted Airport|Stansted Airport]], by local bus services, operated by [[Stephensons of Essex]]. Uttlesford District Council runs a community travel service for residents who have difficulty using public transport.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Uttlesford Community Travel – Helping Residents Get Around|url=http://uttlesfordcommunitytravel.org/|access-date=2020-11-01|website=Uttlesford Community Travel|language=en-US}}</ref>

From 1913 to 1952, Thaxted was served by a light railway branch line from [[Elsenham]] which ran to a [[Thaxted railway station|terminus station]] located about one mile south of the town. The line, the [[Elsenham & Thaxted Light Railway]], was known to locals as the "Gin and Toffee" line because the main investors where a local sweet factory owner and a distillery magnate.<ref name=":9">{{Cite book|last=Oppitz|first=Leslie|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20800104|title=East Anglia Railways Remembered|publisher=Countryside|year=1989|isbn=1-85306-040-2|location=Newbury|page=105|oclc=20800104}}</ref> Passenger traffic ceased on 15 September 1952 and the line closed definitively on 1 June 1953.

Between 1916 and 1919, Thaxted hosted a Home Defence aircraft landing ground. The unit was equipped with Royal Aircraft Factory [[Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2|BE2]] and [[Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12|BE12]] variants fighters of [[No. 75 Squadron RAF|No. 75 Squadron]] until the summer of 1918, and thereafter with [[Avro 504|Avro 504Ks]] and [[Bristol F.2 Fighter|Bristol F2bs]]. The site was decommissioned at the end of the First World War in 1919. The landing ground was located north of Bardfield End Green.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Thaxted – Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust UK|url=https://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/thaxted/|access-date=2020-10-04|website=abct.org.uk}}</ref>