Visited 10 August 2023 - on an abortive day-trip into Essex. The plan was the visit Little Dunmow, the Rodings and the Easters.
Little Dunmow was locked and although there was a not on the door that "visitors were welcome" and the key was available at a
nearby house, there was nobody at home.
A circulitous route was followed including a re-visit to Great Canfield (which was expectedly locked). Aythorpe Roding was
open and was a delight, we can't say much about the others that were locked and Stebbing, which is probably the worst church we have visited.
Eythorpe Roding - seems to be an alternate spelling and does appear in Thomas Wright.
:
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Aythorp Roding Tithe Award (Essex Record Office D/CT293a), dated 1846, shows a rent-charge payable to the Rector [Rev. Thomas Hibbard]
of £366-9-8 plus £60 for glebe. The whole parish measured 1394 acres 3 roods 39 perches of which 1213 acres were subject to tithes.
1041 acres were arable, 132 acres meadow or pasture, 40 acres wood, 33 acres 2 roods 14 perches roads, common and waste,
and 22 acres 3 roods 14 perches glebe. The Tithe Commissioners were J.W. Buller and Richard Jones,
the Assistant Thomas James Tatham, the Valuer Robert Burton of Dunmow."
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Simon Knott - 2014
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It was locked, there was no keyholder notice. An inexpressibly lonely place. The church itself is a poor little thing, its wooden
spire shot through with woodpecker holes. There were no notices of service in the porch, and so I expect it has fallen into disuse.
Redundancy beckons, and perhaps it will be left to go quietly back to nature. It might just as well be left open,
in which case it would at least serve some purpose to passing walkers, pilgrims and strangers.
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