Radwinter

Radwinter is a village and a civil parish on the B1053 road, in the Uttlesford district of the county of Essex, England. The population in the 2011 Census was 612 with 306 males and 306 females living in the parish. Radwinter has a 14th Century church in the centre dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and a primary school. The village has four outlying hamlets in the district of Uttlesford in between the market town of Saffron Walden (Essex) and Haverhill (Suffolk).In the 1870s Radwinter was described as:The parish comprises 3, 802 acres. Post-town, Saffron-Walden. Real property, £5, 365. Pop., 946. Houses, 214. The property is much subdivided. Radwinter Hall, Bendish Hall, and the Hill are chief residences.There is much local history of the parish dating back to the 1800s. "The parishwas once divided into Great Radwinter and Little Radwinter however this distinction is now lost". There was also four manors in existence, Radwinter Hall, Brockhold's, Bendish Hall and Radwinter Grange. Most of what can be seen today in the centre of Radwinter is the work of the Bullock family, they were Lords of the Manor and rectors or Radwinter.DemographicsPopulationThe population has been changing since it started to be closely monitored in the 1801 census up to the present day. According to the 2011 census there was 612 people living in Radwinter, 25 of them aged 0–4, 125 aged 5–17, 460 ages 18–89 and 2 that are 90 and over, showing a small dependency ratio and a large working population. In 1800 and 2011 the populations are similar, with a population of around 600 however the figures have fluctuated in-between these dates as seen in the graph. The boundary change in 1850 could be reason to why the population had a significant increase. The boundary increased from 3,100 acres in 1830 to 3,800 acres in 1850. This caused the population figures to also increase from 819 in 1831 to 916 in 1951.