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Finchingfield, Essex, c1955. 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'. The village was an official stop for horse-drawn coaches travelling from London to Norwich. Finchingfield is often called the most beautiful village in England, a "picture-postcard" village and one of the most photographed. It is the burial place of Dodie Smith, whose books include "The Hundred and One Dalmatians", (1956).