Beauchamp Roding, Essex
Historical Description
Beauchamp Roding, a parish and village in Essex, situated on the river Roding, about 5 miles NE from Ongar station on the G.E.R. Post town and telegraph office, Ongar; money order office, White Roding. Acreage, 1262; population, 254. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross yearly value, £241 with residence. The church, which is dedicated to St. Botolph, is a building of rubble in the Early English style, standing on a bold eminence overlooking an extensive pastoral landscape. It was restored in 1870. Birdsgreen is an adjacent hamlet. The manor formerly belonged to the Beauchamps.
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 | Beauchamp Roothing St. Botolph | |
Hundred | Ongar | |
Poor Law union | Ongar |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Beauchamp Roding from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Roothing, Beauchamp (St. Botolph))
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 Beauchamp 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: