Widdington

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Widdington
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St Mary's Church, Widdington
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Widdington
Location within Essex
Population504 (2011 census)
Civil parish
  • Widdington
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
List of places
UK
England
Essex
51°57′40″N0°14′15″E / 51.96111°N 0.23750°E / 51.96111; 0.23750

Widdington is a village and 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 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]

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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.

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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 (125). York, England: Council for British Archaeology: 40–43. ISSN   1357-4442.
  5. "DocumentsOnline".