Widdington

This article is about the village in Essex. For the place near York, see Widdington, North Yorkshire.

Widdington is a village and a civil parish near Saffron Walden, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 504.[1] The village is located near the M11 motorway. Widdington has a church called St Mary the Virgin, Widdington.[2] Prior's Hall, now a private residence, is a rare survival of a stone-built structure from the late tenth or early eleventh centuries; Prior's Hall barn, from the fourteenth-century, is nearby.[3][4]

Widdington is mentioned in the Domesday Book. The entry reads: Widi(n)tuna: St Valery Abbey; Robert from Robert Gernon; Ranulf Peverel.

Location grid


 Saffron Walden
Rickling Hamperden End
   Widdington  
Henham

See also

The Hundred Parishes

References

  1. ↑ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  2. ↑ St Mary the Virgin, Widdington - Essex | Diocese of Chelmsford
  3. ↑ Prior's Hall Barn, Widdington, Essex:: OS grid TL5331 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland
  4. ↑ Smith, Nicola (July 2012). "The Anglo-Saxon mystery of Prior's Hall". British Archaeology (York, England: Council for British Archaeology) (125): 40–43. ISSN 1357-4442.

External links

Coordinates: 51°57′40″N 0°14′15″E / 51.96111°N 0.23750°E / 51.96111; 0.23750


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