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Abbess Roding, Essex

Historical Description

Abbotts Roding or Abbess Roding, or Roothing, a village and a parish in Essex, on the river Roding, 6 miles N from Ongar station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Ongar; money order office, White Roding; telegraph office, Matching Green. Acreage, 1618; population, 240. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value £323. This parish forms one of a group of agricultural parishes which are collectively styled the Rodings or Roothings.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyEssex 
Ecclesiastical parishAbbess Roothing St. Edmund 
HundredDunmow 
Poor Law unionOngar 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Abbess Roding from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.

The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Villages, Hamlets, &c

Barwick Hall
DistrictEpping Forest
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCM5
Post TownOngar

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