ROOTHING (MARGARET), a parish in the hundred of DUNMOW, county of ESSEX, 7 miles (N.N.E.) from Chipping-Ongar, containing 209. inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £10. 12. 6., and in the patronage of Mrs. Harding. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret.