Margaret Roding, Essex
Historical Description
Margaret Boothing or Roding, a village and a parish, in Essex, 7 miles NE from Ongar station on the G.E.R., and 8 SW from Dunmow. Theie is a post office under Dunmow ½ money order office, White Roothing; telegraph office, Roxwell, Acreage, 1285; population of the civil parish, 237; of the ecclesiastical, 216. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £190 with residence. The church is an ancient building of nibble in the Early Norman style. There are an endowed school and some small charities. A farmhouse in this parish, called Marks Hall, seems at one period to have been an independent chapelry, and now pays tithes to the rectory of Stondon Massey.
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 | Margaret Roothing St. Margaret | |
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 Margaret Roding from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Roothing, Margaret (St. Margaret))
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 Margaret 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: