Berners Roding

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title: "Berners Roding" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-essex", "former-civil-parishes-in-essex", "epping-forest-district"] description: "Village in Essex, England" topic_path: "technology/web" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Roding" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in Essex, England ::

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Field	Value
country	England
static_image	All Saints Church, Berners Roding, Essex porch and nave from south.jpg
static_image_caption	All Saints Church, Berners Roding
coordinates
official_name	Berners Roding
civil_parish	Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding
shire_district	Epping Forest
shire_county	Essex
region	East of England
post_town	Ongar
postcode_district	CM5
postcode_area	CM
os_grid_reference	TL603099
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|country = England |static_image = All Saints Church, Berners Roding, Essex porch and nave from south.jpg |static_image_caption= All Saints Church, Berners Roding |coordinates = |official_name = Berners Roding |population = |civil_parish= Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding |shire_district=Epping Forest |shire_county= Essex |region= East of England |constituency_westminster= |post_town= Ongar |postcode_district = CM5 |postcode_area= CM |dial_code= |os_grid_reference= TL603099 Berners Roding (pronounced Barnish) is a village in the civil parish of Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. The village is included in the eight hamlets and villages called The Rodings. Berners Roding is 6 mi west from the county town of Chelmsford. It was formerly a separate parish but merged with its neighbours Abbess Roding and Beauchamp Roding in 1946 to form the modern parish.

History

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According to A Dictionary of British Place Names, Roding derives from "Rodinges" as is listed in the Domesday Book 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 Hundred of Dunmow. The parish church was appropriated to the monastery of St Leonard, at Bow in Middlesex. The daughter of Sir James Berners, Juliana Berners of the Order of Saint Benedict, writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, and prioress of the Priory of St Mary of Sopwell, was born in the parish.

In the 19th century Berners Roding was in the Dunmow Union—poor relief provision set up under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 —and part of the Rural Deanery 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 gift or donative of the lord of the manor. In 1882 the living was in the gift of a Colonel Bramston, and held by the rector of Willingale Doe, part of today's Willingale, where the children of Berners Roding attended school. In 1848 Berners Roothing parish land of 1030 acre supported a population of 103; in 1882, 1050 acre 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. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/All_Saints_Church,_Berners_Roding,_Essex_neglected_destroyed_graves.jpg" caption="All Saints Church graveyard"] ::

In 1946 the three parishes of Abbess Roding, Beauchamp Roding, and Berners Roding were merged into a new civil parish called Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding. At the 1931 census (the last before the abolition of the civil parish), Berners Roding had a population of 81.

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.

References

References

1. Hadfield, J. (1970). ''The Shell Guide to England''. London: Michael Joseph.
2. Mills, Anthony David (2003); ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', [[Oxford University Press]], revised edition (2011), p.392. {{ISBN. 019960908X
3. ''[[White's Directories. White's Directory]] of Essex'' 1848
4. ''[[Kelly's Directory]] of Essex'' 1882 pp.245-247
5. "Relationships and changes Berners Roding AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time.
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7. "Population statistics Berners Roding AP/CP through time". [[A Vision of Britain through Time]].
8. [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/essex/vol2/pp14-15 "Berners Roding"], [[British History Online]], quoting from ''An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex'', Volume 2, Central and South west (London, 1921), pp.14-15. Retrieved 30 January 2019
9. [https://www.parishofhighongar.org/all-saints "History of All Saint's church"], The parish of High Ongar. Retrieved 30 January 2019
10. [http://www.essexchurches.info/church.aspx?p=Berners%20Roding "All Saints, Berners Roding"], Essex Churches. Retrieved 30 January 2019

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