ROOTHING (High), a parish, with a village, in Dunmow district, Essex; on the river Roding, 3¾ miles S S W of Great Dunmow, and 8 E N E of Sawbridgeworth r.station. Post-town, Dunmow, under Chelmsford. Acres, 1,803. Real property, £2, 823. Pop., 469. Houses, 110. The property is subdivided. The manor was given, in the time of the Confessor, to a monastery in the Isle of Ely. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £391.* Patron, the Earl of Roden. The church was recently restored. There is a parochial school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))