Widdington

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

Widdington
St Mary's Church, Widdington
Widdington is located in Essex
Widdington
Widdington
Location within Essex
Population504 (2011 census)
Civil parish
  • Widdington
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
List of places
UK
England
Essex
51°57′40″N 0°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]

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.

  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".