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“LAYSTON, a parish in the hundred of Edwinstree, county Herts, three-quarters of a mile N.E. of Buntingford, its post town, and 10 miles N. of Ware. It is mentioned in Domesday Book under the name of Ichetone. The ancient village of Layston, once a market town, has entirely disappeared. The workhouse for the union of Buntingford is in this parish. The living is a vicarage annexed to the perpetual curacy of Buntingford, in the diocese of Rochester, value £149. The church, which is situated about half a mile E. of the town of Buntingford, in a secluded spot, has a square tower crowned with a spire and containing five bells. In the interior of the church are several monuments. The register dates from 1600. The Rev. John Henry Butt is lord of the manor."
"BUNTINGFORD, a chapelry in the parishes of Aspenden, Layston, Throcking, and Wyddiall, hundred of Edwinstree, in the county of Hertford, 13 miles to the N. of Hertford, and about 33 miles from London. It is situated in a pleasant spot on the river Rib, and was formerly a market town. The business of the town is chiefly agricultural. Some of the inhabitants are engaged in the leather trade. Buntingford is the seat of a Poor-law Union, and a polling place for the county elections. Petty sessions are held in the town. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage of Layston, in the diocese of Rochester. The church, erected in 1626, is dedicated to St. Peter. There are chapels belonging to the Independents and the Society of Friends; a free grammar school founded about 1630, with a revenue from endowment of £50 per annum, and four scholarships at Christ's College, Cambridge; a girls' free school; National and British schools; almshouses for eight poor persons, founded and endowed by Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury; and a savings-bank. Buntingford was the birthplace (1618) of Bishop Ward, who also received his early education at the grammar school. Annual fairs are held here on the 29th June and 30th November."
"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 parish of Layston with Buntingford for the periods:-
- Baptisms - 1563-1931
- Marriages - 1563-1968
- Burials - 1564-1971
- Bishop's Transcripts - 1806-1852
are deposited at Hertfordshire Record Office, County Hall, Hertford, SG13 8DE. [D/P65]
Entries from the Marriage Registers for the period 1563-1837 are included in The Allen Index at Hertfordshire Record Office.
The period 1563-1843 is covered by the IGI.
Transcripts of the parish registers for the period 1563-1930 are deposited at the Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, LONDON, EC1M 7BA.
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