Widdington
Widdington is a village and a civil parish near Saffron Walden, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. The village is located near the M11 motorway. Widdington has a church called St Mary the Virgin, Widdington.[1] Prior's Hall, now a private residence, is a rare survival of a stone-built structure from the late tenth or early eleventh centuries; Prior's Hall barn, from the fourteenth-century, is nearby.[2][3]
Widdington is mentioned in the Domesday Book. The entry reads: Widi(n)tuna: St Valery Abbey; Robert from Robert Gernon; Ranulf Peverel.
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See also
References
- ↑ St Mary the Virgin, Widdington - Essex | Diocese of Chelmsford
- ↑ Prior's Hall Barn, Widdington, Essex:: OS grid TL5331 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland
- ↑ Smith, Nicola (July 2012). "The Anglo-Saxon mystery of Prior's Hall". British Archaeology (York, England: Council for British Archaeology) (125): 40–43. ISSN 1357-4442.