Quendon and Rickling
Quendon and Rickling is a civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England with an area of 2,048 acres. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 was 587. It is a linear settlement on the B1383 (formerly the A11 trunk road) between Saffron Walden and Bishops Stortford. Quendon & Rickling stand 300 feet above sea level on a watershed between two rivers: the Cam to the east, flowing north through Cambridge to the Ouse flowing on to the Wash. Etymology The parish and its name were created on 1 April 1949 by the merger of Quendon and Rickling parishes. The name Quendon derives from the Old English and which means the ‘women’s valley’. Rickling derives from an Old English personal name Ricula with a suffix meaning 'descendants' or 'followers', thus ‘the people of Ricula’. The wife of King Sledda of the East Saxons (c.587-604) and sister of Æthelberht of Kent was named Ricula, though an association with this manor has not been proven. History People were living in the area over ten thousand years ago because of the Neolithic and Palaeolithic remains found. The village of Rickling was mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1086. In circa