Description
Margaret Boothing or Roding, a village and a parish, in Essex, 7 miles NE from Ongar station on the G.E.R., and 8 SW from Dunmow. Theie is a post office under Dunmow 1/2 money order office, White Roothing; telegraph office, Roxwell, Acreage, 1285; population of the civil parish, 237; of the ecclesiastical, 216. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £190 with residence. The church is an ancient building of nibble in the Early Norman style. There are an endowed school and some small charities. A farmhouse in this parish, called Marks Hall, seems at one period to have been an independent chapelry, and now pays tithes to the rectory of Stondon Massey.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
