The Bushel & Sack Hotel
A family run business with over 60 years experience. Situated just 10 minutes from Stansted Airport. We offer free transfers to and from Stansted Airport (starting at 4.00am until 1.00am) and have great stay, park & fly packages. We also have our famous budget family rooms
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Great Dunmow is a town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. Originally the site of a Roman settlement on Stane Street, the town thrived during the Middle Ages. Many buildings survive from this period, including a sixteenth century town hall.
The town is famous for its four-yearly ritual of the flitch trials, in which couples must convince a jury of six local bachelors and six local maidens that they have never wished themselves un-wed for a year and a day. If successful the couple are paraded through the High Street and receive a flitch of bacon. The last flitch trials were held in the town in the summer of 2004, with the next scheduled for 2008. The custom is ancient, and is mentioned in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
