Stansted Mountfitchet is an English town and also civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, near the Hertfordshire border, 35 miles (56 km) north of London. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 5,533, increasing to 6,011 at the 2011 census. The village is served by Stansted Mountfitchet train station. Stansted Mountfitchet is situated in north west Essex near the Hertfordshire border and 3 miles (5 km) north of Bishop's Stortford. Stansted Airport is 2 miles (3 km) from the town. The town has three primary schools (Bentfield Primary School, St Mary's (C of E) Primary School and also Magna Carta Primary Academy), as well as one senior high school which was relabelled the Forest Hall School in September, 2013.