Place:Widdington, Essex, England

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NameWiddington
Alt namesWidintunasource: Domesday Book (1985) p 106
Widitunasource: Domesday Book (1985) p 106
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates51.967°N 0.233°E
Located inEssex, England
See alsoUttlesford Hundred, Essex, Englandhundred in which it was located
Saffron Walden Rural, Essex, Englandrural district of which it was part 1894-1974
Uttlesford (district), Essex, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
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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. 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.

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The parish was part of the Saffron Walden Rural District from 1894 until 1974.

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