Sible Hedingham
| Sible Hedingham | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 St Peter's Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL7734 |
| Location: | 51°58’0"N, 0°34’60"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 3,994 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Halstead |
| Postcode: | CO9 |
| Dialling code: | 01787 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Braintree |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Braintree |
Sible Hedingham is a large village and parish in the Colne Valley in the Hinckford hundred of Essex. It has a population of 3,994 according to the 2011 census.[1] Sible Hedingham lies in the northern corner of Essex, close to both the Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders.
The Domesday Book lists the village together with Hedingham Castle amongst the lands given to Roger Bigod by the king.[2][3] The land included woodland for 70 pigs that was in total valued at £4.
A variation on the village name is "Hengham Sybyle".[4]
The village is twinned with the French city of "Choisy-au-Bac", located in Picardy region, Oise department (50 miles North of Paris, near Compiègne).
Notable people
- J. Redwood Anderson (1883–1964) – poet.
- Savitri Devi (1905–1982) – prominent proponent of animal rights, deep ecology and Nazism.
- Sir John Hawkwood (1320–1394) – mercenary (or condottiere) who was active in 14th-century Italy.
- John Hilton FRCS, FRS, FZS (1805–1878) – British Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria and greatest anatomist of his time.
- Samuel Wilbore (1595-1656) - A founder of Portsmouth Colony (Rhode Island; 7 March 1638) as religious dissenter from the Plymouth Colony of Boston, Massachusetts
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Sible Hedingham) |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Office for National Statistics – Key statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11128502&c=Sible+Hedingham&d=16&e=62&g=6422974&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1365670435156&enc=1. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- ↑ Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. p. 1036 ISBN 0-14-143994-7
- ↑ Roger Bigod held a number of manors including a massive number in Suffolk and Norfolk given to him by the King. These obviously included Sible Hedingham, but also included Pebmarsh, Ovington and the area of Belchamp.
- ↑ Plea Roll of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/647; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/bCP40no647dorses/IMG_0761.htm; third entry, second line residence of John Ekefeld, yeoman
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