HEDINGHAM CASTLE, a town of the county of Essex, in the hundred of Hinchford, forty-seven miles from London, whose inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1065, in 1811 to 1052, in 1821 to 1163, and in 1831 to 1220. Within half a mile of it is another town, Sible Hedingham, whose population amounted in 1801 to 1865, in 1811 to 1702, in 1821 to 2060, and in 1831 to 2194.