Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WIDDINGTON

WIDDINGTON, a parish in Saffron-Walden district, Essex; 1¾ mile SSE of Newport r. station, and 5 S of Saffron-Walden. Post town, Bishop-Stortford. Acres, 2,028. Real property, £3,041. Pop., 409. Houses, 91. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £570.* Patron, Major M. H. Court. The church is tolerable. There is an Independent chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Widdington AP/CP       Saffron Walden RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place: Widdington

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