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Great Hormead
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“GREAT HORMEAD, a parish in the hundred of Edwinstree, county Herts, 2 miles E. of Buntingford. The parish was enclosed in 1823, and contains the village of Hare Street, situated on the river Quin. The manor was once held by Edgar Atheling, and subsequently by the Sandfords and De Veres. The land is almost entirely arable. The surface is hilly, and the soil chiefly clay and marl. Amygdaloid and fossil shells and bones are found in large quantities. There are quarries of sandstone and granite. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under an Enclosure Act in 1814. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester, value £121, in the patronage of St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient structure, dedicated to St. Nicholas. There is a National school. The principal residence is Hormead Bury.
"HARE STREET, a village in the parishes of Great Hormead and Layston, county Herts, 2 miles E. of Buntingford. There is also a seat of this name near Romford, Essex, once the residence of Repton, the landscape gardener."
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from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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The Parish Registers for the periods:-
- Baptisms - 1538-1981
- Marriages - 1538-1988
- Burials - 1538-1872
- Bishop's Transcripts - 1800-1852
are deposited at Hertfordshire Record Office, County Hall, Hertford, SG13 8DE. [D/P55]
Entries from the Marriage Registers for the period 1538-1837 are included in The Allen Index at Hertfordshire Record Office.
The period 1538-1876 is covered by the IGI.
Transcripts of the parish registers for the period 1538-1956 are deposited at the Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, LONDON, EC1M 7BA.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"HARE STREET, a village in the parishes of Great Hormead and Layston, county Herts, 2 miles E. of Buntingford. There is also a seat of this name near Romford, Essex, once the residence of Repton, the landscape gardener."
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