Widdington is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It lies south of Saffron Walden, its post town. Widdington has a church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 502.
Prior's Hall, now a private residence, is a rare survival of a stone-built structure from the late tenth or early eleventh centuries; Prior's Hall barn, from the fourteenth-century, is nearby.
Widdington was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Widituna. The entry reads: Widi(n)tuna: St Valery Abbey; Robert from Robert Gernon; Ranulf Peverel.