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Widdington Village

A little treasure in North Essex

Widdington village is a small picturesque village situated two miles South east
of Newport and around five miles south of Saffron Walden.

Widdington is a delightful village.
Winding lanes lead up from Newport to Widdington village.
The Village Green has late 18-century farm workers Cottages
mixed with earlier stone and thatched cottages from the late 1600's
The combination of such mixed housing makes
Widdington village a real treasure.

Please stay safe, Stay at Home.

There’s no place like home,

There’s no place like home.

Never was so much owed by so many, to so few"

This is another Battle Of Britain.

Fascinating story from Angie Surman,

Working at Mole Hall wildlife park back in the sixties

Hello, Gary,

I came across your page as I was recently telling a friend about things

I had done in my life - and one of them was working at Mole Hall - must

have been sometime in the later sixties. I remember working with a young

man called David who I think may have stayed with the Johnstones for

quite a while. I was also a bit perplexed at the chimps - when I was

there, there were two young females, called Linda and Gloria - no

mention of these online, just the seemingly well known Tubman.

I unfortunately don't have any photo of my time there but I have plenty

of memories of a plethora of birds and mammals that David and I cared

for on a day to day basis. Some, of course, stick in one's memory more

than others but it was an interesting and rewarding time and a chance to

learn about a myriad of species one would not normally come across in

everyday life.

Please click here to read Angie's full story

New page added

The Transactions of the

Essex Archaeological Society

Rev, G. Montague Benton

https://sites.google.com/site/widdingtonphoto001/rev-g-montagu-benton

Please click on the picture

Just found this wonderful Postcard

A steam driven traction engine.

Please Click here to see the rest of the pictures

Early postcards provide us with an insight into old village life.

Although photography was developed from the 1850s onwards, one of our main source of early village Life scenes is unquestionably the picture postcards.

These were popular form of communication between 1894 and the 1950s.

Britain was slower than its continual neighbours to catch on to the picture postcard.

It was not till 1894 before the old post office gave the green light.

Surprisingly there are a lot of different postcard images of our beautiful village.

I will try to add a new Picture postcard page in the New Year.

And now they want to knock it down

Yes, Pond Mead will be knocked down soon.

And another Postcard

Pond Mead Dated 1905