HIGH RODING
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF ESSEX 1933
HIGH RODING is 31 miles from London and 4 south-west from Dunmow station on the London and North Eastern railway, in the Saffron Walden division of the county, Dunmow hundred, petty sesional division and rural district, and rural deanery of Roding; it was given by Leofwin, in the reign of King Edward the Confessor, to a monastry in the Isle of Ely. The church of All Saints, restored in 1855, at a cost of nearly £1,000, is a low building of flint in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western turret containing 2 bells: there are brasses in the chancel: the church will seat 250 persons. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £427, with residence and 24 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Church Association Trust, and held since 1925 by the Rev. George Denyer, of London University. The trustees of the late Sophia Countess of Roden are lords of the manor. The trustees of the late S. Edwards, J. Bennett and Sons, Miss E. Jones, G. F. Reynolds esq. and S. H. Chynoweth esq. are the principal landowners.
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