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. I would like to thank Paul Savage for this wonderful photograph. It was taken Paul believes in 1985,, Can you add to the list of names. Summer 1984-5 ( i think) Back row (l to r): Dave Alexander ( from Rickling Gn), Anthony Gould, Paul Savage, Chris Galtress, David Selby ( landlord), Derek Green jnr ( i think), Les D, John Dew (umpire) Front row (l to r): Peter Savage, Nigel Donnelly, Chris D, Gary Savage  The May Singers 1940s I would like to thank Robin Denison, for The May Singers photograph. It was taken around 1940s Can anyone put names to the faces.  The May Singers Daphne Bridgeman (nee Stalley) March 1989 I was born in Widdington in 1931 and lived there until I married in 1955 but came back regularly to visit my mother until she died in 1979. I still come to the Churchyard to see the graves of my father and mother – James Alfred Stalley and Queenie May Stalley. …. I was one of the May Singers during the war, and shall never forget the excitement of getting up early to start the singing before we went to school, then again in the dinner break and we finished our visits to every house in the village when we came out of school. Of course there were not so many houses then. I don’t know what the doll in the hoop represented. My Aunt Doris, most years, did the hoops and we made our own crossed. These were two pieces of wood nailed together, back of which was covered with greenery. We picked bluebells, paigles (oxlips), cowslips and cuckoos (purple orchids) and made these into small bunches which were tired to the front of the cross. Later my brother and sister went May Singing… The song was sang went like this: I’ve been a rambling all this night A branch of May, my dear I say, The hedges and the fields so green And now my song is almost done This is a bit different to that printed in the magazine but it’s imprinted on my mind lie the ABC and my sister remembers my version. I used to live n the house next to Florus House by the Green and I think Mrs Brookman lives there now. Daphne Bridgeman (nee Stalley) March 1989 New housing estates. Will village life be lost in Widdington by the threat of the new housing estates. Develops have now put forward proposals which would see the village expand further by listing new sites as suitable for new housing estates in the Village. However, residents fear any more development could squeeze services to the very limit. Car traffic has increased tenfold over ten years with the proposal of more housing adding to the misery. Raw sewage leaks from inspection cover in stormy weather into gardens as the old pipe work can’t cope. Lower green is often flooded as the old storm drains are blocked and nothing can be done as there’s no money. Just next door in Henham, Fairfield Application for 350 houses on land to the North West Of Henham Road. We need affordable housing in the village not million pound plus homes.  The annexed account entitled: The Village of Widdington, Essex Was written in 1939, as an appendix to a History of the Hollis, Ainslic, Bullock, Smith, Griffiths, Murkin, and Perry Familes, and it may be well to preface the account by recording briefly how the four last mentioned families came to be associated with, or interested in, Widdington. Please click on the picture 
Parish Council Meeting July, 2019 We are collecting photographs and information relating We welcome any personal photographs or information
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