Quendon and Rickling

Quendon and Rickling is a civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England with an area of 2,048 acres.

[3] Quendon & Rickling stand 300 feet above sea level on a watershed between two rivers: the Cam to the east, flowing north through Cambridge to the Ouse flowing on to the Wash.[4] The parish and its name were created on 1 April 1949 by the merger of Quendon and Rickling parishes.

[5] The name Quendon derives from the Old English cwene and den which means the ‘women’s valley’.

The wife of King Sledda of the East Saxons (c.587-604) and sister of Æthelberht of Kent was named Ricula, though an association with this manor has not been proven.

People were living in the area over ten thousand years ago because of the Neolithic and Palaeolithic remains found.