High Roding is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England.

According to A Dictionary of British Place Names, Roding derives from "Rodinges" as is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, with the later variation 'High Roinges' recorded in 1224.

[8] In the reign of Edward the Confessor, Leofrin gave High Roding manor to a monastery in the Isle of Ely.

Crops grown at the time were chiefly wheat, barley and beans, on a heavy soil with a clay subsoil.

[10] Parish occupations in 1882 included six farmers, one of whom was a landowner, four farm bailiffs, three beer retailers, the licensee of The Black Lion public house, a miller, a carpenter, a plumber, a baker, a machinist, a blacksmith, three shopkeepers, one of whom was also a tailor and another a hawker, two shoemakers, a grocer & provision dealer, and a bricklayer.

The post office, previously run by the grocer & provision dealer, was in 1902 under the control of the confectioner (who also offered accommodation for cyclists and traps for hire), and in 1914, a baker.