The Rodings

Coordinates: 51°48′N 00°18′E / 51.800°N 0.300°E / 51.800; 0.300
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The B184 through High Roding, Essex

The Rodings

Epping Forest. An alternative arcane name, linked to the Middle English Essex dialect, was The Roothings.[2][3]

History

The Rodings, the remnants of a single Anglo-Saxon community known as the Hroðingas, were led by Hroða; who sailed up the River Thames and along a tributary, to settle in the area in the sixth century.[1] This was one of the tribal areas that were absorbed into the Kingdom of Essex.[4] The River Roding and the villages derived their name from Hroða.[1]

The villages are recorded in the

Epping Forest
.

In the second half of the 19th century The Rodings came part of the

rural deaneries of Roding and Ongar, the Archdeaconry of Essex, and the Diocese of St Albans. In 1914 the parishes came under the Diocese of Chelmsford. Roman remains have occasionally been found in the area. Crops grown at the time were chiefly wheat, barley and beans, on a heavy soil with a clay subsoil.[6]

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 1,853.[7]

Landmarks

The area is typified by medieval thatched cottages, timber-framed manor houses and farmhouses. There is a mid-18th-century post mill windmill in Aythorpe Roding, the only surviving windmill in the area. There are a number of churches dating from the Norman period; the oldest is St Margaret of Antioch in Margaret Roding, which has a Norman doorway and the tomb of a crusader.[1]

Roding names

Transport links

A single bus service, number 59, serves White Roding, Leaden Roding and Margaret Roding. It is operated by

Arriva Shires & Essex, running hourly in each direction to Harlow via Hatfield Heath and Chelmsford via Roxwell. The route is on the Hertfordshire Intalink
network.

Ecclesiastical organisation

In the

priest-in-charge. Berners Roding is now part of the Parish of Willingale, the Parish Church of unknown dedication (but thought to be All Saints) is redundant and is privately owned.[11]

See also

Further reading

  • Stephen Basset, Stephen (1997), "Continuity and fission in the Anglo-Saxon landscape: the origins of the Rodings (Essex)", in Landscape History, vol 19: pp. 25–42[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Rollason, Pam (June 2008). "Around the Rodings". Essex Life. Archant. p. 92. Retrieved 3 February 2009. (Registration required.)
  2. ^ Map of Abbotts Roothing [Abbess Roding]. 1838.
  3. ^ ""Housen" -- evidence for the survival and decline of an Essex dialect plural - Ged Martin". www.gedmartin.net. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  4. ^ Andrew Reynolds, Later Anglo-Saxon England (Tempus, 2002, page 67) drawing on S Bassett (ed) The Origin of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Leicester, 1989)
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-14-143994-5
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  6. ^ a b Kelly's Directory of Essex 1882 p.245; 1894 p.285; 1902 p.339; 1914 p.477
  7. ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  8. ^ Lewis, Samuel (1831) A topographical dictionary of England, vol 3, p.630
  9. ^ "Lost In Time: A short History of Morrell Roding", Aythorpe Roding Parish Council. Retrieved 8 February 2018
  10. ^ South Rodings parish history
  11. ^ "Berners Roding Parish Church (De-consecrated)", Abbess, Beauchamp & Berners Roding Parish Council. Retrieved 30 January 2018
  12. doi:10.1080/01433768.1997.10594491
    .

External links

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