Berden


Berden is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. Berden village is approximately north from Bishop's Stortford, its post town, and north-west of Essex's county town of Chelmsford. Berden parish, with its own parish council, is in the district of Uttlesford and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden.
At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 473.
Berden was part of Clavering hundred and is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a location with four villagers and five smallholders.

Notable sites

is the parish church. Berden Hall dates to the 1580s. A manor and Berden Priory existed in Berden in medieval times.

Notable people