Aythorpe Roding, Essex
Historical Description
Aythorpe Roding, or Aythrope Roding or Roothing, an ancient parish and village in Essex, situated on the river Roding, 5½ miles W from Dunmow station on the G.E.R. Its name signifies the "high village upon the Roding." It has a post office of the name of Aythrope Roding under Dunmow; money order office, White Roding; telegraph office, Ayton. Acreage, 1394; population, 193. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross yearly value, £299. The church is a small but ancient building of flint in the Early English style.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Aythorpe Roothing St. Mary | |
Hundred | Dunmow | |
Poor Law union | Dunmow |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Aythorpe Roding from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Roothing, Aythorpe (St. Mary))
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
Online maps of Aythorpe Roding are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online: