Sible Hedingham
Sible Hedingham 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. Sible Hedingham lies in the northern corner of Essex, close to both the Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders. The village covers some.
The Domesday Book lists the village together with Hedingham Castle amongst the lands given to Roger Bigod by the king. The land included woodland for 70 pigs that was in total valued at £4.
A variation on the village name is "Hengham Sybyle".
The village is twinned with the French commune of Choisy-au-Bac, located in Picardy region, Oise department.Notable people associated with Sible Hedingham
- J. Redwood Anderson, poet died here
- Rachel Barrett, suffragette and newspaper editor
- Savitri Devi, prominent proponent of animal rights, deep ecology and Nazism, who died here
- 'Dummy', an unnamed elderly man killed in 1824 after he was accused of witchcraft
- Sir John Hawkwood, English mercenary who was active in 14th-century Italy
- John Hilton FRCS, FRS, FZS, Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria and greatest anatomist of his time
- Samuel Wilbore – a founder of Portsmouth Colony as a religious dissenter from the Plymouth Colony of Boston, Massachusetts
