Ridgewell is a village and
civil parish
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in the
Braintree district
Braintree is a local government district in the English county of Essex, with a population (2011 census) of 147,084. Its main town is Braintree. The three towns of the district are Braintree, Halstead and Witham. The district was formed on 1 Ap ...
of
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
, England, about six miles from
Haverhill on the main road between Haverhill and Braintree.
Its population was 503 in 216 households in the 2001 census, with mean age 41.35 years, the population increasing to 509 at the 2011 Census.
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It was mentioned in the ]Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
.
Ridgewell has a village shop, primary school and two pubs: the ''White Horse'' and the ''King's Head''. St Laurence's Church dates from the 14th century and is a grade I listed building.
The church has a ring of 6 bells. https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?tower=16172
RAF Ridgewell
Royal Air Force Ridgewell or more simply RAF Ridgewell is a former Royal Air Force station located at Ridgewell, north west of Halstead, Essex, England.
During the Second World War, the airfield was used by the Royal Air Force and the United ...
was the base for the USAAF
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and ''de facto'' aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II ...
381st Bomb Group (H) and No. 90 Squadron RAF
No. 90 Squadron RAF (sometimes written as No. XC Squadron) is a squadron of the Royal Air Force.
History
World War I
No. 90 Squadron was formed as a fighter squadron of the Royal Flying Corps at Shawbury in Shropshire on 8 October 1917, movin ...
, part of No. 3 (Bomber) Group, during the Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
.
References
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Villages in Essex
Braintree District
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