# Berners Roding

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{{Short description|Village in Essex, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}}
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|country = England
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|static_image_caption= All Saints Church, Berners Roding
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|official_name = Berners Roding
|population = 
|civil_parish= [Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding](/source/Abbess%2C_Beauchamp_and_Berners_Roding)
|shire_district=[Epping Forest](/source/Epping_Forest_District)
|shire_county= [Essex](/source/Essex)
|region= East of England
|constituency_westminster= 
|post_town= [Ongar](/source/Ongar%2C_Essex) 
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'''Berners Roding''' (pronounced Barnish)<ref>Hadfield, J. (1970). ''The Shell Guide to England''. London: Michael Joseph.</ref> is a village in the [civil parish](/source/civil_parish) of [Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding](/source/Abbess_Beauchamp_and_Berners_Roding) in the [Epping Forest District](/source/Epping_Forest_District) of [Essex](/source/Essex), England. The village is included in the eight [hamlets](/source/Hamlet_(place)) and [villages](/source/villages) called [The Rodings](/source/The_Rodings). Berners Roding is {{convert|6|mi|km|0}} west from the [county town](/source/county_town) of [Chelmsford](/source/Chelmsford). It was formerly a separate parish but merged with its neighbours [Abbess Roding](/source/Abbess_Roding) and [Beauchamp Roding](/source/Beauchamp_Roding) in 1946 to form the modern parish.

==History==
thumb|left|Berners Roding in the Chapman and Andre map of 1777
According to ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', Roding derives from "Rodinges" as is listed in the ''[Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book)'' and recorded earlier as such at c.1050.<ref>Mills, Anthony David (2003); ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), revised edition (2011), p.392. {{ISBN|019960908X}}</ref> 'Berners' Roding is not listed in ''Domesday''.

An alternative traditional name for the village, manor, and previous parish, was 'Berners Roothing'. It was in the [Hundred](/source/Hundred_(county_subdivision)) of [Dunmow](/source/Great_Dunmow). The parish church was appropriated to the monastery of [St Leonard, at Bow](/source/St_Leonard's_Priory%2C_London) in Middlesex. The daughter of Sir James Berners, [Juliana Berners](/source/Juliana_Berners) of the [Order of Saint Benedict](/source/Order_of_Saint_Benedict), writer on [heraldry](/source/heraldry), [hawking](/source/falconry) and [hunting](/source/hunting), and [prioress](/source/prioress) of the [Priory of St Mary of Sopwell](/source/Sopwell_Priory), was born in the parish.<ref name=Whites1848>''[White's Directory](/source/White's_Directories) of Essex'' 1848</ref><ref name=Kellys1882>''[Kelly's Directory](/source/Kelly's_Directory) of Essex'' 1882 pp.245-247</ref>

In the 19th century Berners Roding was in the Dunmow [Union](/source/Workhouse)&mdash;[poor relief](/source/poor_relief) provision set up under the [Poor Law Amendment Act 1834](/source/Poor_Law_Amendment_Act_1834) &mdash;and part of the [Rural Dean](/source/Rural_Dean)ery of Roding. The registers of the church of All Saints' (deconsecrated in 1985 and privately owned) date to 1538. The 1848 [living](/source/Benefice) was a [perpetual curracy](/source/Perpetual_curate), [held](/source/Incumbent_(ecclesiastical)) by the rector of [Margaret Roothing](/source/Margaret_Roding), and in the [gift](/source/Gift_(law)) or [donative](/source/Donativum) of the [lord of the manor](/source/lord_of_the_manor). In 1882 the living was in the gift of a Colonel Bramston, and held by the [rector](/source/Rector_(ecclesiastical)) of Willingale Doe, part of today's [Willingale](/source/Willingale%2C_Essex), where the children of Berners Roding attended school. In 1848 Berners Roothing parish land of {{convert|1030|acre|km2|1}} supported a population of 103; in 1882, {{convert|1050|acre|km2|1}} supported 86. Crops grown at the time were chiefly wheat, barley and beans, on a heavy soil with a clay subsoil. Parish occupations included three farmers in 1848, and two in 1882.<ref name=Whites1848/><ref name=Kellys1882/>
thumb|left|All Saints Church graveyard

In 1946 the three parishes of Abbess Roding, Beauchamp Roding, and Berners Roding were merged into a new civil parish called Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10245904|title=Relationships and changes Berners Roding AP/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=30 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20180208123547/https://www.essexinfo.net/abbessbeauchampbernersrodingpc/ "Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding"]}}, Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding Parish Council. Retrieved 10 February 2018</ref> At the 1931 census (the last before the abolition of the civil parish), Berners Roding had a population of 81.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10245904/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Berners Roding AP/CP through time|publisher=[A Vision of Britain through Time](/source/A_Vision_of_Britain_through_Time)|accessdate=30 June 2023}}</ref>

Berners Roding's [unlisted](/source/Listed_Building) All Saints Church dates to at least the 14th century, with some remnants dating to the 12th. It was deconsecrated in 1985. It, and its graveyard, is in a state of neglect and decay.<ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/essex/vol2/pp14-15 "Berners Roding"], [British History Online](/source/British_History_Online), quoting from ''An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex'', Volume 2, Central and South west (London, 1921), pp.14-15. Retrieved 30 January 2019</ref><ref>[https://www.parishofhighongar.org/all-saints "History of All Saint's church"], The parish of High Ongar. Retrieved 30 January 2019</ref><ref>[http://www.essexchurches.info/church.aspx?p=Berners%20Roding "All Saints, Berners Roding"], Essex Churches. Retrieved 30 January 2019</ref>
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==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Berners Roding}}
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20180208123547/https://www.essexinfo.net/abbessbeauchampbernersrodingpc/ Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding Parish Council]}} official website including Berners Roding description. Retrieved 10 February 2018
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=118&v=JIfGgVTASco "Collapsing Essex Church & Prisoner of War Camp"], video of derelict All Saints Church at Berners Roding

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