Willingale, Essex

{{Short description|Village in Essex, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2015}}

{{Infobox UK place

| official_name= Willingale

| civil_parish = Willingale

| country= England

| region= East of England

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| post_town= Ongar

| postcode_area= CM

| postcode_district= CM5

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| shire_district= Epping Forest

| shire_county= Essex

| hide_services= Yes

| population = 501

| population_ref = (2011 census)

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File:St. Christopher's Church, Willingale, Essex - geograph.org.uk - 78805.jpg

Willingale is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. The civil parish also includes the village of Shellow Bowells and the hamlet of Miller's Green. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 501.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130681&c=Willingale&d=16&e=62&g=6424807&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1473170391859&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=6 September 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics}} Willingale has two churches in one churchyard: one dedicated to St Christopher;[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/willingale-st-christopher/ "Willingale: St Christopher, Willingale"], Church of England the other to St Andrew.[http://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=4152 "Willingale Spain, St Andrew's Church"], Britain Express Limited The civil parish of Willingale was created on 1 April 1946 from the parishes of Shellow Bowells, Willingale Doe and Willingale Spain.{{cite web|url=http://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10248980|title=Relationships and changes Willingale CP through time|publisher=Vision of Britain|access-date=20 November 2018}} Willingale Doe and Spain were recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ulinghehala/Willing(h)ehala.{{cite web|url=http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/essex5.html#willingale|title=Essex T-Z|publisher=The Domesday Book Online|access-date=20 November 2018}}

Richard Wiseman (1632 - 1712), landowner and member of parliament was born in the village.

Clopton Havers (24 February 1657 – April 1702) was an English physician who did pioneering research on the microstructure of bone. He is believed to have been the first person to observe and almost certainly the first to describe what are now called Haversian canals and Sharpey's fibres. Havers married Dorcas Fuller, daughter of Thomas Fuller, the Rector of Willingale, Essex. Havers died in Willingale in 1702 and was buried at Willingale Doe, Essex. His funeral sermon, dedicated to his widow, was preached by Lilly Butler, minister of St Mary Aldermanbury in London, and was later printed in quarto.