Stebbing

Stebbing
Stebbing High Street
Stebbing
Stebbing shown within Essex
Population	1,300 (2011)
OS grid reference	TL677203
District	Uttlesford
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Dunmow
Postcode district	CM6
Dialling code	01371

Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
EU Parliament	East of England
UK Parliament	Saffron Walden
List of places UK England Essex 51°53′44″N 0°24′34″E / 51.8956°N 0.4095°E / 51.8956; 0.4095Coordinates: 51°53′44″N 0°24′34″E / 51.8956°N 0.4095°E / 51.8956; 0.4095

Stebbing is a small village in the Uttlesford district of northern Essex, England. The village is situated north of the ancient Roman road Stane Street. Its high street contains a pub, and a bowling green. About 1500 people live in the village. It is 6.4 miles (10.3 km) from the nearest railway station (Braintree railway station), and 7.6 mi (12.2 km) from nearest airport (London Stansted)

Stebbing is mentioned in the Domesday Book

"Henry de Ferrers holds Stebbing in which Siward held as a manor and as two hides and 30 acres. Then and later two ploughs in demesne; now 3. Among the men then 4 ploughs now six and a half. There were six now eight. Then 16 now 33."

Half a mile north-west of the church is The Mount, the moated earthwork remains of the medieval castle.

In the late 13th century the manor of Stebbing passed briefly to the Scottish noble house of Douglas by virtue of the marriage of William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas to Eleanor de Lovaine, the widow of William de Ferrers of Groby. Eleanor was a ward of Edward I, and had her late husband's manors of Stebbing and Woodham Ferrers made into a dowry for a future remarriage. Douglas absconded with Eleanor, when she was attending to her late husband's estates in Scotland, and married her c.1288. Douglas, a significant figure on the Scottish side during the First Scottish War of Independence, had his English manors finally forfeited by 1298 when he died of mistreatment in the Tower of London. His son Hugh Douglas having been captured previously at Stebbing in 1296, by the Sheriff of Essex.

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