In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Abbess Roding like this:
ROOTHING-ABBOTS, a parish in Ongar district, Essex; on the river Roding, 6 miles N by E of Ongar r.station. It contains the hamlet of Roothing-Barwick; and its post town is Ongar. Acres, 1, 602. Real property, £2, 366. Pop., 220. Houses, 47. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged ancientlyto Barking abbey. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £323.* Patron, Capel Cure, Esq. The church is good, and has a spire. There are an Independent chapel and a parochial school.
Abbess Roding through time
Abbess Roding is now part of Epping Forest district. Click here for graphs and data of how Epping Forest has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Abbess Roding itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Abbess Roding, in Epping Forest and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6877
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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