Little Hallingbury is a village located in Essex, UK. It is between river and forest, on a high rise of ground, near the main railway at Bishop's Stortford and the M11 motorway. As it is right on the Essex and Hertfordshire border many people think the village is in Hertfordshire. It has a Bishop's Stortford postcode, but is in the Uttlesford district of North West Essex. Little Hallingbury is a fine village and the area has much to offer, including walks, two good pubs and a very active social life. Most notably is Little Hallingbury panto group who put on a fantastic spread every January for the past twenty five years. Little Hallingbury Mill is a converted mill which today is a guest house restaurant. It was built as a silk mill in 1874 and there was milling on this site for many years before it was turned into a fine hotel complex. To the north of the village lies Hatfield Forest, designated as a Royal Hunting Forest from the time of the Norman kings. The forest is open to the public and covers 1,049 acres (4 km2) of woodland, grassland with trees, lake and marsh. The lake at Hatfield Forest, and the 50ft wide ditch emerging form it, is enclosed by ancient woodland and endowed with the same mystical atmosphere that exists at Wandlebury – not oppressive, but eerie. The lake itself was formed only 230 years ago by the damming of a stream, but one of its shores forms the continuation of the sweeping half-circle of the ditch into which the water has also spilled. Portingbury Hills in Hatfield Forest is an Iron Age farmstead. It consists of a rectangular mound measuring 100 by 70ft surrounded by a strong ditch up to 35ft wide. The banks are not very high, but it is a 'strange' spot with a very certain 'feeling' ..