Widdington
| Widdington | |
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 St Mary's Church, Widdington | |
  Widdington Location within Essex | |
| Population | 504 (2011 census) |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Widdington is a village and civil parish that is located 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 dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.[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 was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Widituna.[5] The entry reads: Widi(n)tuna: St Valery Abbey; Robert from Robert Gernon; Ranulf Peverel.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ St Mary the Virgin, Widdington - Essex | Diocese of Chelmsford
- ^ Prior's Hall Barn, Widdington, Essex:: OS grid TL5331 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland
- ^ Smith, Nicola (July 2012). "The Anglo-Saxon mystery of Prior's Hall". British Archaeology (125). York, England: Council for British Archaeology: 40–43. ISSN 1357-4442.
- ^ "DocumentsOnline".
External links
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Media related to Widdington at Wikimedia Commons- Widdington Village Website
- Vision of Britain
- British Listed Buildings on Widdington
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