Site from the international airport of Stansted

Located about 37 miles
northeast of downtown
London, Stansted is the
most remote of the three
 airports serving the city.


Transit time from central London is about 40 minutes by rail and an hour by car. It occupies 2400 acres (960 hectares) of level terrain and is neighbor to the rural parishes of Stansted Mountfichet, Bishops Stortford, and Takeley.
The surrounding landscape is dotted with farms, archeological sites, parish churches, and vernacular timber
barn structures.
Construction at Stansted dates to August 1942 when the airfield began as an alternate bad weather site for
World War IIWorld War II  World War II allied warplanes. In the 1950s the single runway was extended to a imposing 10,000 ft to
accommodate B47 bombers during the Cold War.
At about the same time, a small terminal at Stansted began handling longdistance charter flights.
The 1960s found the airport developing into a major freight center. In 1961 the fateful position paper was published by BAA, promoting the rural location as the site of London’s next major airport.