By the time of the Norman Conquest, in , a large part of the area passed into the hands of William the Conqueror, the de Veres and the de Mandevilles who became the Earls of Oxford and Essex.
Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne, held a manor in High Roding, later given to Thomas Cranmer whose parish church was one of the first to possess the English Bible. The boundaries and names of the villages were more or less established by the fourteenth century: Abbess, Aythorpe, Beauchamp, Berners, High, Leaden, Margaret, and White Roding.
The Rodings. Church years old, very old ironwork on doors, old as stones of church. Apart from some changes in the 13th and 14th century the main change to the building took place in the 19th century when the wooden spire was destroyed by lightning. High Roding Church itself has changed little over the period since then. Worship used to move to the Mission Hall within the village in winter, when it was easier to heat the hall than the Church.
New pew Bibles were sponsored by parishioners in the s, continuing the encouragement of the first-hand study of scripture within the congregation, started by Cromwell. Berners Roding is a very isolated part of the area and most of it is reached by a single road.
The church is not in use but is under the stewardship of the local farm with the management undertaken by Strutt Parker. Historically the area has been predominantly agricultural. However, more recently many residents commute to various towns to work including London, few work on the land. Indeed, much diversification has occurred on the farm sites as agriculture has diminished in economic importance.
A variety of light industrial units are to be found where previously farm machinery and grain would have been stored. There are now no public houses in the three villages.
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