London Stansted Airport

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London Stansted Airport (IATA: STN, ICAO: EGSS) is a large passenger airport located in the Uttlesford District of the English county of Essex about 30 miles (48 km) north-east of London. It is about 2 miles (3 km) outside Bishop's Stortford and 6 miles (10 km) outside Harlow.

Stansted is a hub for a number of major European low-cost carriers. It is the third busiest airport in the United Kingdom and is the third largest airport serving the London area after Heathrow and Gatwick; and is one of London's five international airports along with Luton and London City Airports. Stansted is owned and operated by BAA, which also owns and operates six other UK airports^[1], including Heathrow and Gatwick, and is itself owned by an international consortium led by the Spanish Ferrovial Group.^[2]

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**Essex**

Geography
Status	Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Region	East of England
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 11th 3,670 km² Ranked 11th 3,465 km²
Where Essex is run	Chelmsford
ISO 3166-2	GB-ESS
ONS code	22
NUTS 3	UKH33
Demographics
Population - Total (2005 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 6th 1,645,900 448 / km² Ranked 2nd 1,340,000
Where the people come from	96.8% White 1.2% S. Asian
Politics
Essex County Council http://www.essexcc.gov.uk/
The organisation that is in charge	Conservative
Members of Parliament	David Amess John Baron Simon Burns Douglas Carswell James Duddridge Mark Francois Alan Haselhurst Bernard Jenkin Eleanor Laing Andrew Mackinlay Brooks Newmark Eric Pickles Bill Rammell Bob Russell Angela Smith Bob Spink John Whittingdale
Districts
Harlow Epping Forest Brentwood Basildon Castle Point Rochford Maldon Chelmsford Uttlesford Braintree Colchester Tendring Thurrock (Unitary) Southend-on-Sea (Unitary)

Essex is a county in the east of England. It has a population of around 1,500,000 people. It is part of the East of England region. The county town of Essex is Chelmsford. Essex has London and Kent on its southern border and the whole of the east of the county is coast-line. The Dartford Tunnel can be used to drive under the River Thames between Essex and Kent.

Other famous towns in Essex are Colchester, the oldest town in England, and in the south-eastern corner of the county Southend, one of Britain's biggest sea-side resorts.

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A famous writer from the county of Essex is Dorothy L. Sayers, who wrote detective novels. Her most famous character is Lord Peter Wimsey.

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