Beauchamp Roding ( ) is a village in the

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Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding is a group of three small villages in the County of Essex, England. Collectively, they form one civil parish in the Epping Forest district Epping Forest is a Non-metropolitan district, local government dist ...

, and in the

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, England. The village is included in the eight

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and

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called The Rodings. Beauchamp Roding is west from the county town of

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History

According to ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', Roding derives from "Rodinges" as is listed in the ''

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'', with the later variation 'Royenges Beauchamp' recorded in 1238. The 'Beauchamp' refers to the manorial possession by a family called 'de Beauchamp' held under the ownership of the

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. In the ''Domesday'' account Beauchamp Roding is listed as in the Hundred of Ongar. It held 15 households, two villagers, 13 smallholders, of meadow and 200 pigs. Before the

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was held by Edsi and

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; after given to Aubrey de Vere, with

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Beauchamp Roding, Chapman and Andre map, 1777

Other traditional names for the village and manor included 'Beauchamp Roothing' and 'Roding Beauchamp'. It was in the Hundred of Ongar. In 1882 it was also in the Ongar

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—

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provision set up under the

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—and part of the

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ery of Ongar. The registers of the church of St Botolph date to 1688. The church, which was restored in 1867, had attached an 1882 living of a

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with

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for the

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. There was also a

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. The area in and around the village had one principal landowner. The hamlet of Birds Green in the parish to the south of the village was partly in the parish of Willingale Doe. Crops grown at the time were chiefly wheat, barley and beans, on a heavy soil with a clay subsoil. There was a land area of supporting an 1881 population of 231. Occupations included a beer retailer, a farm bailiff, five farmers, one of whom was a hay dealer and the

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of the Swan Inn public house, and another farming at Butt Hatch. Also at Butt Hatch was a shopkeeper.''

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of Essex'' 1882 pp.245-247 Since 1946, Beauchamp Roding has been part of the Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding civil parish."Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding"
Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding Parish Council. Retrieved 10 February 2018

References

External links

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Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding Parish Council
official website including Beauchamp Roding description. Retrieved 10 February 2018 {{authority control Villages in Essex Former civil parishes in Essex Epping Forest District