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Sible Hedingham

Coordinates:51°58′50″N0°35′28″E / 51.9805°N 0.591°E /51.9805; 0.591
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Village in Essex, England

Human settlement in England
Sible Hedingham
St Peter's Church
Sible Hedingham is located in Essex
Sible Hedingham
Sible Hedingham
Location withinEssex
Population3,994 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceTL7734
Civil parish
  • Sible Hedingham
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHALSTEAD
Postcode districtCO9
Dialling code01787
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England
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51°58′50″N0°35′28″E / 51.9805°N 0.591°E /51.9805; 0.591

Sible Hedingham (/ˌsɪbəlˈhɛdɪŋəm/SIB-əlHED-ing-əm[2]) is a large village andcivil parish in theColne Valley in theBraintree District ofEssex, in England. 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 village covers some 2,123 hectares (5,246 acres).

TheDomesday Book of 1086 lists the village together withHedingham Castle amongst the lands given toRoger Bigod by the king,William the Conqueror.[3][4] The land included woodland for 70 pigs that was in total valued at £4.

A variation on the village name is "Hengham Sybyle".[5]

In 1863, Sible Hedingham was the site of one of the last 19th-century witchcraft accusations in England. The victim is now known as "Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham".

The village is twinned with theFrench commune ofChoisy-au-Bac,[6] located in Picardy region, Oise department (c. 80 km north of Paris, near Compiègne).

Notable people associated with Sible Hedingham

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  • J. Redwood Anderson (1883–1964), poet died here[7]
  • Rachel Barrett (1874–1953), suffragette and newspaper editor
  • Savitri Devi (1905–1982), prominent proponent of Nazism, animal rights and deep ecology, who died here
  • 'Dummy', an unnamed elderly deaf mute man murdered by a mob in 1863 after he was accused of witchcraft.
  • SirJohn Hawkwood (1320–1394), English mercenary (orCondottiero) who was active in 14th-century Italy[8]
  • John Hilton (surgeon) FRCS, FRS, FZS (1805–1878), Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria and greatest anatomist of his time[9]
  • Joan Prentice, a woman living in an almshouse here who was accused of witchcraft and she was hanged in Chelmsford in 1589.[10]
  • Samuel Wilbore (1595–1656) – a founder ofPortsmouth Colony (Rhode Island, US; 7 March 1638) as a religious dissenter from thePlymouth Colony of Boston, Massachusetts
Alderford Mill

References

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  1. ^abUK Census (2011)."Local Area Report – Sible Hedingham Parish (1170213791)".Nomis.Office for National Statistics. Retrieved30 January 2019.
  2. ^jimmyw74 (25 March 2011)."Illegal Landbanking".YouTube.Archived from the original on 6 September 2022. Retrieved6 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. p. 1036ISBN 0-14-143994-7
  4. ^Roger Bigod held a number of manors including a massive number inSuffolk andNorfolk given to him by theKing. These obviously included Sible Hedingham, but also includedPebmarsh,Ovington and the area ofBelchamp.
  5. ^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
  6. ^"A French connection: Twinning teams mark 25 years together".Halstead Gazette. 16 May 2017. Retrieved30 January 2019.
  7. ^"Death of Poet".Birmingham Post. No. 32893. 30 March 1964. p. 22. Retrieved17 February 2019 – viaBritish Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^Fowler, Kenneth (8 October 2009). "Hawkwood, Sir John (d. 1394), military commander".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12693. (Subscription orUK public library membership required.)
  9. ^Kirkup, John (23 September 2004). "Hilton, John (1805–1878), anatomist and surgeon".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13327. (Subscription orUK public library membership required.)
  10. ^Gibson, Marion (2004)."Essex witches (act. 1566–1589)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70257.ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved20 March 2021. (Subscription orUK public library membership required.)

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