Widdington

This article is about the village in Essex. For the place near York, see Widdington, North Yorkshire.

Widdington is a village and civil parish that is located near Saffron Walden, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 504.^[1] The village is located near the M11 motorway. Widdington has a church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.^[2]

Widdington
St Mary's Church, Widdington
Widdington Location within Essex
Population	504 (2011 census)
Civil parish	Widdington
District	Uttlesford
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SAFFRON WALDEN
Postcode district	CB11
Dialling code	01799
List of places UK England Essex 51°57′40″N 0°14′15″E

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.^[3][4]

Widdington was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Widituna.^[5] The entry reads: Widi(n)tuna: St Valery Abbey; Robert from Robert Gernon; Ranulf Peverel.

See also

• The Hundred Parishes