Radwinter facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Radwinter |
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St Mary's Church |
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Population | 612 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Saffron Walden |
Postcode district | CB10 |
Police | Essex |
Fire | Essex |
Ambulance | East of England |
EU Parliament | East of England |
Radwinter is a village and a civil parish on the B1053 road, in the Uttlesford district of the county of Essex, England. The population in the 2011 Census was 612 with 306 males and 306 females living in the parish. Radwinter has a 14th Century church in the centre dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and a primary school. The village has four outlying hamlets in the district of Uttlesford in between the market town of Saffron Walden (Essex) and Haverhill (Suffolk).
In the 1870s Radwinter was described as:
The parish comprises 3, 802 acres. Post-town, Saffron-Walden. Real property, £5, 365. Pop., 946. Houses, 214. The property is much subdivided. Radwinter Hall, Bendish Hall, and the Hill are chief residences.
There is much local history of the parish dating back to the 1800s. "The parish was once divided into Great Radwinter and Little Radwinter however this distinction is now lost". There was also four manors in existence, Radwinter Hall, Brockhold's, Bendish Hall and Radwinter Grange. Most of what can be seen today in the centre of Radwinter is the work of the Bullock family, they were Lords of the Manor and rectors or Radwinter.