Sewards End
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| Sewards End | |
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| Coordinates: 52°1′12″N 0°17′13″E / 52.02°N 0.28694°E | |
| District | Uttlesford |
| County | Essex |
| Country | England |
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| • Type | Civil parish (from 2004) |
Sewards End is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is about one mile east of Saffron Walden and is set in the rolling countryside of north west Essex. It became a civil parish on April 1, 2004.[1]
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[edit] Location
Sewards End is in the county of Essex, in south eastern England, 43 miles from London, 17 miles from Cambridge, 14 miles from Bishops Stortford and one mile from Saffron Walden.[2]
[edit] History
Sewards End dates back many centuries and proudly boasts many examples of architecture across the ages including buildings such as "Everards" and the folly known as "The Towers".
[edit] Recent Change
In common with many other rural villages of its size, Sewards End has seen many changes in recent decades. The 2nd half of the 20th century saw it moving away from its rural roots where a high percentage of the population either worked on the land or in local industry, to the role of dormitory village, the population frequently commuting to Cambridge or further afield to London via road and rail links.
These changes have inevitably led to alterations in the social fabric of the community and they are evidenced by the closure of the village's two pubs (The Fox and the Green Dragon), its local shop, post office and garage as well as the folding of its once vibrant cricket club during the last 3 decades of the 20th century.
Villagers' lifestyles have moved on and so have their social and economic ambitions. The positive aspects of those changes are reflected in the new parish council, village hall and thriving parish church, St James.
[edit] Conservation
The increasing affluence of the area has also seen several examples of sympathetic restoration to local properties such as "Campions", "Wheel Hall Cottage" and more recently "Seward End Farm".
[edit] References
[edit] External links
Media related to Sewards End at Wikimedia Commons
Coordinates: 52°1′12″N 0°17′13″E / 52.02°N 0.28694°E
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