Berners Roding (pronounced Barnish) is a village and former

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, now in the parish of

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 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. Berners Roding is west from the county town of

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. In 1931 the parish had a population of 81.

History

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

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'' and recorded earlier as such at c.1050. '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

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of Dunmow. The parish church was appropriated to the monastery of St Leonard, at Bow in Middlesex. The daughter of Sir James Berners,

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of the

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, writer on

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, hawking and

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, and prioress of the Priory of St Mary of Sopwell, was born in the parish.'' White's Directory of Essex'' 1848''

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of Essex'' 1882 pp.245-247 In the 19th century Berners Roding was in the Dunmow

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provision set up under the

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—and part of the

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ery of Roding. The registers of the church of All Saints' (deconsecrated in 1985 and privately owned) date to 1538. The 1848 living was a perpetual curracy, held by the rector of Margaret Roothing, and in the

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of the

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. In 1882 the living was in the gift of a Colonel Bramston, and held by the

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of Willingale Doe, part of today's Willingale, where the children of Berners Roding attended school. In 1848 Berners Roothing parish land of supported a population of 103; in 1882, 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. On 1 April 1946 the parish was abolished to form "Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding". Berners Roding's unlisted 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."All Saints, Berners Roding"
Essex Churches. Retrieved 30 January 2019

References

External links

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Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding Parish Council
official website including Berners Roding description. Retrieved 10 February 2018
"Collapsing Essex Church & Prisoner of War Camp"
video of derelict All Saints Church at Berners Roding {{authority control Villages in Essex Former civil parishes in Essex Epping Forest District