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Rickling, which includes Rickling Green, is a village in the Uttlesford district of Essex. The village is situated approximately 6 miles north of Bishop's Stortford. Saffron Walden, at 5 miles and the larger village of Newport, at 2 miles, lie to the north-east.
Rickling is the site of the village's church, All Saints, and a few houses. Rickling Green, 2 miles from Rickling, has a pub and primary school and is conjoined to Quendon.

A 141 mile long figure-of-eight walk, mainly on tracks and green lanes passing many places of historic interest, crossing low hills, woods and arable land via Standon and Manuden to meet the cross-over point at Newport. It continues through Saffron Walden and over the low Bartlow Hills to Horseheath and the Fleam Dyke, to enter Cambridge, the return route passing through Melbourn and Chrishall to Newport, continuing via Debden, Thaxted, Takeley and Hatfield Forest. The waymarked Five Parishes Millennium Boundary Walk (15 miles) is a circular route using part of the Harcamlow Way at Tilty. The waymarked Wimpole Way (11 miles and on OS mapping) Way goes across farmland and through the villages of Caldecote and Kingston to the eighteenth-century Wimpole Hall and Park and is part of the Harcamlow Way. With the Clopton Way it links the Greensand Ridge Walk with Cambridge.