Widdington is a village and civil parish that is located near Saffron Walden, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England.

Widdington has a church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

[2] Prior's Hall, now a private residence, is a rare survival of a stone-built structure from the late tenth or early eleventh centuries; Prior's Hall barn, from the fourteenth-century, is nearby.

[3][4] Widdington was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Widituna.

[5] The entry reads: Widi(n)tuna: St Valery Abbey; Robert from Robert Gernon; Ranulf Peverel.