Sible Hedingham
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Sible Hedingham (Template:IPA-cen Template:Respell[1]) is a large village and civil parish in the Colne Valley in the Braintree District of Essex, in England. It has a population of 3,994 according to the 2011 census.[2] Sible Hedingham lies in the northern corner of Essex, close to both the Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders. The village covers some Script error: No such module "convert"..
The Domesday Book of 1086 lists the village together with Hedingham Castle amongst the lands given to Roger Bigod by the king, William the Conqueror.[3][4] The land included woodland for 70 pigs that was in total valued at £4.
A variation on the village name is "Hengham Sybyle".[5]
In 1863, Sible Hedingham was the site of one of the last 19th-century witchcraft accusations in England. The victim is now known as "Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham".
The village is twinned with the French commune of Choisy-au-Bac,[6] located in Picardy region, Oise department (c. 80 km north of Paris, near Compiègne).
Notable people associated with Sible Hedingham
- J. Redwood Anderson (1883–1964), poet died here[7]
- Rachel Barrett (1874–1953), suffragette and newspaper editor
- Savitri Devi (1905–1982), prominent proponent of Nazism, animal rights and deep ecology, who died here
- 'Dummy', an unnamed elderly deaf mute man murdered by a mob in 1863 after he was accused of witchcraft.
- Sir John Hawkwood (1320–1394), English mercenary (or Condottiero) who was active in 14th-century Italy[8]
- John Hilton (surgeon) FRCS, FRS, FZS (1805–1878), Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria and greatest anatomist of his time[9]
- Joan Prentice, a woman living in an almshouse here who was accused of witchcraft and she was hanged in Chelmsford in 1589.[10]
- Samuel Wilbore (1595–1656) – a founder of Portsmouth Colony (Rhode Island, US; 7 March 1638) as a religious dissenter from the Plymouth Colony of Boston, Massachusetts
References
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- ↑ Roger Bigod held a number of manors including a massive number in Suffolk and Norfolk given to him by the King. These obviously included Sible Hedingham, but also included Pebmarsh, Ovington and the area of Belchamp.
- ↑ Plea Roll of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/647; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/bCP40no647dorses/IMG_0761.htm; third entry, second line residence of John Ekefeld, yeoman
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