Finchingfield is a village in the Braintree district of North Essex, England, a primarily rural area.

Archaeological evidence suggests a Roman villa once stood 400 metres south-southwest of today's village church.

The place-name 'Finchingfield ' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Fincingefelda, meaning 'the field of Finc or his people'.

[citation needed] Finchingfield was the home and is the burial place of Dodie Smith, whose books include The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956).

The series concerns three young men who avoided going to fight during the First World War, written by and starring Simon Bird and Joe Thomas.