Berners Roding

All Saints, Berners Roding

Berners Roding or Berwick Roding, is a parish in Dunmow hundred and Ongar union. Rochester diocese, Essex Archdeaconry, Roding deanery. Population in 1861 was 189 Acres 1,050.
Kelly’s Directory of Essex, 1862

“ROOTHING (BERNERS), a parish in the hundred of DUNMOW, county of ESSEX, 5¾ miles (N. E. by N.) from Chipping-Ongar, containing 93 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £500 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of T. G. Bramston, Esq.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831

BERNERS RODING, (or Berners Roothing), a parish in the hundred of Dunmow, county Essex, 5½ miles NE of Chipping-Ongar. The parish, which derives its distinguishing affix from Hugh de Berners, to whom the manor at one time belonged, is of small extent. About three parts of the surface is arable, and the remainder pasture and woodland. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £224 14s. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Rochester, value £65. The church is an ancient structure, dedication unknown. The register dates from 1583. There is a village school.

The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland – 1868


Berners Roding baptisms DP 279-1-1 1591-1765

Berners Roding marriages DP 279-1-1 1591-1754

Berners Roding burials DP 279-1-1 1591-1765

Further registers for Berners Roding are included in the FreeREG database.


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