Stansted Mountfitchet is an English village as well as civil parish in Uttlesford area, Essex, near the Hertfordshire boundary, 35 miles (56 km) north of London. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 5,533, increasing to 6,011 at the 2011 census. The town is offered by Stansted Mountfitchet train station. Stansted Mountfitchet is positioned in north west Essex near the Hertfordshire boundary and 3 miles (5 kilometres) north of Bishop's Stortford. Stansted Airport is 2 miles (3 km) from the town. The village has three primary schools (Bentfield Primary School, St Mary's (C of E) Primary School and also Magna Carta Primary Academy), and also one secondary school which was renamed the Forest Hall School in September, 2013.