This year's Stebbing Elizabethan Fayre was held on Saturday July 3rd and Sunday July 4th and was again a resounding success.

We are very grateful to all our residents who contributed to such an enjoyable weekend but most of all to all of you who were able to visit us over those two days and experience the fun, the sense of occasion and the simple chance to wander around the village we love so much.

Sadly it will be another four years before the next Fayre, but in the meantime we will be adding some pictures of the festivities to give those of you who couldn't join us a small taste of the event.

We've put together a few facts about our home village partly because we're so proud of it and also because we know there are many of you out there who have connections with the village or an affinity with it. We hope these few pages will interest all of you especially those whose names such as Stebbing, Stebbings and Stebbins show that your roots probably lie here.

Now a few words about whom, where and what we are.

Stebbing is situated in the North of the County of Essex and in the Hundred of Uttlesford about 40 miles NNE of London. It is home to about 1500 souls and its only in this century that the population has risen again above the level it had at the time of the Black Death! There are traces of settlement back to Roman times but the main features date from the Norman period onwards. We have the remains of a Norman castle and some hundred or so listed buildings dating from the thirteenth century onwards. Stebbing's greatest glory is the thirteenth century church of St. Mary the Virgin and its magnificent stone rood screen.

To help you find your way around Stebbing, its history and its other features we've divided our story into the parts shown on the menu bar at left.

The editors wish to express their thanks to the many contributors to this page, in particular to Mr Michael Kingdom for his permission to reproduce his sketches and text on local buildings which were originally published in

"Stebbing - the Prospect for Survival"
1975.