The M11 motorway runs 300 yards (274 m) to the east, with Junction 7 for Harlow being 4 miles (6 km) to the north.

In 1891 the northwestern parts of Theydon Garnon parish including Fiddlers Hamlet, Coopersale Street, and Coopersale were alienated to become part of Epping Urban District (from 1974 Epping Forest District).

Masons Bridge Farmhouse is at the south of the hamlet below the Merry Fiddlers, and is a timber-framed, jettied and pargetted building dating probably to the 15th century.

[5] On Home Farm at the north of the hamlet on Coopersale Street road are three listed farm buildings: a timber-framed and weatherboarded barn with a half-hipped tiled roof which dates to the mid-16th-century;[6] an early 19th-century timber-framed and weatherboarded granary;[7] and a courtyard farm building dating to the 16th century, of previously indeterminate use, timber-framed and weatherboarded, with a hipped roof.

[8] A now nonexistent timber-framed house called Gardners, recorded extant in 1956 and .75 miles (1 km) south-west from the hamlet, part dated to the 15th century, with a 16th-century roof, a 17th-century staircase and 16th-century panelling.