I really enjoy your extensive photos & research on your Widdington Website.  I’m happy for u to put any of this on the Website if you want.
I visited regularly from about 1971 - about 1990.

My grandparents & Flint Cottage , which they bought from friends (the Johnstones from Mole Hall). (Henry & [Elizabeth] Leslie Corsellis).
They moved to 2 Flint Cottages in 1972, and Granny lived there for 30 years (my grandfather passed away in 1982).
There was a ground-floor shop in the house next door (to the left looking at the Cottages) when they moved there, but it closed within a few years, I think it was. 
Harry (my grandfather) would go to the ‘pub early evening each day & would exchange legal anecdotes with Connolly Gage, and chat to Ted Knights who was usually there (hence the bar stool with his name plaque on it)!
My grandparents were friends of Pam & Stu Johnstone from the 1950’s (I.e. before the Johnstones moved to Mole Hall in the ‘60’s)

Flint Cottages is a 2-up 2-down with adjoining piggery at the back (which my grandparents made into a dining room & spare bedroom. They also added a kitchen & bedroom extension at the back. The new owners built a further extension at the side). It’s listed on Historic England:-

Architect 16 Russell Square.1877. For Francis Smith.
The cottage is shown on the first two photos of your ‘High Street’ section.

Villagers in those days were:-

Ret. Judge Connolly Gage

Lady Rowley 

Doug Foster

Hoy family, renowned pig-breeders, small farm on the High Street just past the ‘pub near lane going to Amberden End. (‘Martin’s Farm?). (Granny bought eggs from them).

In the ‘70’s, the pub was owned by Charles Byrne & his partner Jane Wignall (who was the chef).

Mr Stuart & Mrs Pamela Johnstone (nee Spicer) of Mole Hall Wildlife Park (& Farm). Their children, Douglas and Caroline.
Both Pam & Stuart, were great reconteurs & amusing.  They were dedicated animal conservationists, WWF members and Pam had v successful Canadian Otter & Snowy Owl breeding programmes on the Wildlife Park. (She told me she’d set an alarm every 3 hours through the night to feed Snowy Owl chicks).
Unusually for a woman of her era and background, she studied at Art College (I believe it was “The Slade”) & thus also had a keen interest in sculpture & painting.

Mole Hall itself:  

Pam told me when they renovated the dining room floor they found animal bones left over from meals, presumably dating back to Mediaeval times. (The house is Elizabethan).

Mole Hall staff:

Mrs Rose Ellen Peck, house-keeper &  friend of the Johnstones. (Buried in churchyard)  Mrs Peck was greatly loved by the Johnstone children & a good friend of Pam & Stuart.  There’s a photo of her daughter, Eileen , on this Site.

Ted Knights: There’s a photo of Ted with the chimp Tubman on this Site.
Retired zoo-keeper Ted Knights (buried in churchyard).  There was a bar stool with plaque  with his name on it in the ‘pub!

Alan, Violet and children’(Park shop/gate) Calver.

Re James Mumford

Henham local historian Joyce Winmill was a friend of Granny’s. When I spoke to Joyce in the ‘70’s she said she had a lot of info about the Mumford Case but she kept it quiet because there were still descendants of Pallett’s in the village at that time. She showed me Mumford’s spectacles (I don’t know how she got hold of these!). 

She told me Pallett’s attack was in ‘Hollow Lane’. (A witness says about 1/2-mile from the village). Pallett mentions ‘Quendon  Want Lane’: Chapman & Andre’s 1777 Map of Essex marks a ‘Quendon Want’ nearby).

Joyce also said Pallett was illiterate: in his Statement he says James was identified by ‘a mark’ on his clothes - presumably his name - which presumably Pallett couldn’t read.

She gave a piece of info not inc in the trial notes (or anywhere else) that the reason Pallett had a grudge was because James had told his father about Pallett turning up to work drunk, & had persuaded his father to sack him. 

Some internet sources say the Mumfords were at Widdington Hall but Joyce told me it was Priors Hall, & that’s what’s on your Site.  I’ve now found a ‘Draper’s’ record 1829 which states George Mumford was at Prior’s Hall. 

Even in the ‘80’s the writing on James’ grave was almost worn away.

Doug Foster: I think he was a retired farm worker and that he lived 2 doors away (to the left as you look at Flint Cottages). He was very much the old countryman type: pale blue eyes, low-key & humorous.  He loved his pet ferrets!
Alan and Violet Calver & children: Alan was a farm worker on Mole Hall farm and Violet worked in the Wildlife Park ticket booth & shop.  Alan was gentle and easy-going and Violet was the foil to him - vivacious and chatty. He was kind, and gardened & mowed the lawns for free of the elderly in the village (inc. for my granny).
Alan’s memories & photos of him are in his Section of this Site.

The Dillon Robinsons of Prior’s Hall
My mother (Jane MacLoughlin nee Corsellis) went to dances in the ‘50’s, when they were at Prior’s Hall.
(They are elsewhere on this Site).