The new village, built on the site of a former sugar beet factory, is a self-contained community of 850 dwellings and is another kilometre along the road towards Felsted.

Little Dunmow formed the caput of a feudal barony the first holder of which was Ralph Baynard, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.

By 2008 the population of this development far exceeded that of the old village,[4] and in April 2009 Flitch Green became a separate civil parish, under an order made by Uttlesford District Council, but retains Little Dunmow as its postal address.

An original scope of 3,000 houses was shelved after opposition,[6] and subsequent smaller proposals have been refused planning permission.

In later years they were carried in the Flitch Chair, thought to be made from pew ends from the priory church.

[11] The last recorded priory trial was held in 1751 but the custom was revived in Victorian times following the 1854 publication of the novel The Flitch of Bacon by William Harrison Ainsworth.