# The Rodings > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Rodings > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Rodings.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rodings > Source revision: 1319857301 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Group of villages in Essex, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:The B184 through High Roding, Essex - geograph.org.uk - 1371517.jpg|thumb|The B184 through [High Roding](/source/High_Roding), Essex]] '''The Rodings''' {{IPAc-en|'|r|əʊ|d|ɪ|ŋ|z}} are a group of eight villages in the upper part of the [River Roding](/source/River_Roding) and the west of [Essex](/source/Essex), England, the largest group in the country to bear a common name.{{cite news|url=http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=&refresh=3Ex0Hy14j5C1&EID=52357006-6cf2-46b7-874f-a85febe6a2c6&skip=true|title= Around the Rodings |last=Rollason |first=Pam |date=June 2008|work=Essex Life|publisher=Archant|page=92 |accessdate=2009-02-03}} (Registration required.) The Rodings do not lie within a single district in the county; they are arranged around the [tripoint](/source/tripoint) of the administrative areas of [Chelmsford](/source/Chelmsford_(borough)), [Uttlesford](/source/Uttlesford) and [Epping Forest](/source/Epping_Forest_(district)). An alternative arcane name, linked to the Middle English Essex dialect, was '''The Roothings'''.{{Cite book|url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2301071|title=Map of Abbotts Roothing [Abbess Roding]|date=1838|language=English}}{{Cite web|title="Housen" -- evidence for the survival and decline of an Essex dialect plural - Ged Martin|url=https://www.gedmartin.net/martinalia-mainmenu-3/222-housen-evidence-for-the-survival-and-decline-of-an-essex-dialect-plural|access-date=2021-08-30|website=www.gedmartin.net}} ==History== The Rodings, the remnants of a single [Anglo-Saxon](/source/Anglo-Saxons) community known as the ''Hroðingas'', were led by ''Hroða''; who sailed up the [River Thames](/source/River_Thames) and along a tributary, to settle in the area in the sixth century. This was one of the tribal areas that were absorbed into the [Kingdom of Essex](/source/Kingdom_of_Essex).Andrew Reynolds, ''Later Anglo-Saxon England'' (Tempus, 2002, page 67) drawing on S Bassett (ed) ''The Origin of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms'' (Leicester, 1989) The [River Roding](/source/River_Roding) and the villages derived their name from ''Hroða''. It has been suggested that the early territory of the Rodings may also have included [Willingale](/source/Willingale%2C_Essex) and [Shellow Bowells](/source/Shellow_Bowells), and that White Roding, which was sometimes historically called Roding Magna ("Great Roding") was the centre of the estate.{{cite book |last1=Rippon |first1=Stephen |title=Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape: The Countryside of the East Saxon Kingdom |date=2022 |publisher=Boydell Press |isbn=9781783276806 |page=181 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Territoriality_and_the_Early_Medieval_La/jj52EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA181&printsec=frontcover |access-date=1 November 2025}} The villages are recorded in the ''[Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book)'' of 1086 as ''Rodinges'' in the [Hundred of Dunmow](/source/Hundreds_of_Essex).{{cite book|title=Domesday Book: A Complete Translation|editor=Ann Williams |editor2=G H Martin|publisher=Penguin Books|location=London|year=2003|pages=982, 996, 1393|isbn=978-0-14-143994-5}} In the time of [Edward the Confessor](/source/Edward_the_Confessor), it was held by the [Abbey of St Æthelthryth of Ely](/source/Ely_Abbey); however, after the [Norman Conquest](/source/Norman_Conquest), part was taken by [William de Warenne](/source/William_de_Warenne%2C_1st_Earl_of_Surrey). Part was also held by the [de Veres](/source/Aubrey_de_Vere_I) and [de Mandevilles](/source/Geoffrey_de_Mandeville_(11th_century)) families, who became the [Earls of Oxford](/source/Earl_of_Oxford) and [Earls of Essex](/source/Earl_of_Essex). By the 14th century, the boundaries and names of the villages had become fairly established. [Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding](/source/Abbess%2C_Beauchamp_and_Berners_Roding) now form a single parish in the district of [Epping Forest](/source/Epping_Forest_(district)). In the second half of the 19th century The Rodings came part of the [Dunmow](/source/Great_Dunmow) and [Ongar](/source/Ongar%2C_Essex) [Unions](/source/Workhouse) – [poor relief](/source/poor_relief) provision set up under the [Poor Law Amendment Act 1834](/source/Poor_Law_Amendment_Act_1834). The parishes were in the [rural deaneries](/source/Rural_Dean) of Roding and Ongar, the [Archdeaconry of Essex](/source/Archdeacon_of_West_Ham), and the [Diocese of St Albans](/source/Diocese_of_St_Albans). In 1914 the parishes came under the [Diocese of Chelmsford](/source/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.''[Kelly's Directory](/source/Kelly's_Directory) of Essex'' 1882 p.245; 1894 p.285; 1902 p.339; 1914 p.477 ==Governance== An [electoral ward](/source/Wards_and_electoral_divisions_of_the_United_Kingdom) in the same name exists. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 1,853.{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/the-rodings-e05004284#sthash.UqBFIF7P.dpbs|title=Ward population 2011|accessdate=28 September 2015}} ==Landmarks== The area is typified by medieval thatched cottages, timber-framed manor houses and farmhouses. There is a mid-18th-century [post mill](/source/post_mill) windmill in [Aythorpe Roding](/source/Aythorpe_Roding), the only surviving windmill in the area. There are a number of churches dating from the [Norman](/source/Normans) period; the oldest is St Margaret of Antioch in [Margaret Roding](/source/Margaret_Roding), which has a Norman doorway and the tomb of a crusader. ==Roding names== * [Abbess Roding](/source/Abbess_Roding) * [Aythorpe Roding](/source/Aythorpe_Roding) * [Beauchamp Roding](/source/Beauchamp_Roding) (pronounced ''Beecham Roding'') * [Berners Roding](/source/Berners_Roding) * [High Roding](/source/High_Roding) * [Leaden Roding](/source/Leaden_Roding) * [Margaret Roding](/source/Margaret_Roding) * [White Roding](/source/White_Roding) * [Morell Roding](/source/White_Roding) (previously centred on Cammas Hall, the hamlet was absorbed by White Roding; today nonexistent although a defined area of land[Lewis, Samuel](/source/Samuel_Lewis_(publisher)) (1831) ''A topographical dictionary of England'', vol 3, p.630{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20180209063123/https://www.essexinfo.net/aythorpe-roding/assets/documents/morell-roding-pdf "Lost In Time: A short History of Morrell Roding"]}}, Aythorpe Roding Parish Council. Retrieved 8 February 2018) ==Transport links== A single bus service, number 59, serves White Roding, Leaden Roding and Margaret Roding. It is operated by [Arriva Shires & Essex](/source/Arriva_Shires_%26_Essex), running hourly in each direction to [Harlow](/source/Harlow) via [Hatfield Heath](/source/Hatfield_Heath) and [Chelmsford](/source/Chelmsford) via [Roxwell](/source/Roxwell). The route is on the Hertfordshire [Intalink](/source/Intalink) network. ==Ecclesiastical organisation== In the [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England) [Diocese of Chelmsford](/source/Diocese_of_Chelmsford), Leaden, [Abbess](/source/Abbess_Roding), White and [Beauchamp Roding](/source/Beauchamp_Roding) have formed the ''South Rodings'' parish since 2004.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110916072543/http://www.essexinfo.net/southrodingschurches/parish-history/ South Rodings parish history]}} High and [Aythorpe Roding](/source/Aythorpe_Roding) are [benefice](/source/benefice)d to [Great Canfield](/source/Great_Canfield) and Margaret Roding to [Good](/source/Good_Easter) and [High Easter](/source/High_Easter), those 6 parishes are served by one [priest-in-charge](/source/priest-in-charge). [Berners Roding](/source/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.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150403232337/http://www.essexinfo.net/abbessbeauchampbernersrodingpc/parish-churches/berners-roding-parish-church/ "Berners Roding Parish Church (De-consecrated)"]}}, Abbess, Beauchamp & Berners Roding Parish Council. Retrieved 30 January 2018 ==See also== * [The Hundred Parishes](/source/The_Hundred_Parishes) ==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{{cite journal|journal=Landscape History|volume=19|year=1997|pages=25–42|title=Continuity and fission in the Anglo-Saxon landscape: the origins of the Rodings (Essex)|first=Stephen|last=Basset|doi=10.1080/01433768.1997.10594491 }} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{commons category-inline|The Rodings}} *[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15645 British History Online] {{coord|51|48|N|00|18|E|region:GB|display=title}} {{Heptarchy}} {{Portalbar|England|United Kingdom}} {{Essex|state=collapsed}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodings}} Category:Villages in Essex Category:Geography of Essex --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Rodings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rodings) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rodings?action=history)). 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