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“WELWYN, a parish and small town in the hundred of Broadwater, county Herts, 5 miles N. of Hatfield, 7 W. of Hertford, and 1¼ mile W. of the Welwyn station of the Great Northern railway. It is situated in a valley near the river Maran, or Mimeran, across which the railway is carried by a viaduct of 42 arches, 97 feet high and 30 broad. The parish includes, besides the town of its own name, the hamlets of Woolmer Green and Harmer Green. The town consists of one principal street, with a smaller one leading to Stevenage. It contains assembly-rooms, union poor-house, and a literary institution, with reading room and library, at the "White Hart" hotel. The streets have recently been lighted with gas. The population in 1851 was 1,557, and in 1861, 1,612. The manufacture of boots and shoes has been introduced, and there is a fellmonger and woolstapler. The Poor-law Union comprises 4 parishes or townships. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester, value £665, in the gift of All Souls' College, Oxford. The church of St. Mary contains the tomb of Dr. Young, author of "Night Thoughts," who died rector in 1766, leaving the interest of £1,500 for clothing and educating 16 boys. There are National, infant, and endowed free schools. The principal seats are Danesbury and Frythe. The local charities produce about £90 per annum."
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from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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Jill Ashby has a Herts Burials and Memorials website which contains over 30,000 photographs of graves and monuments in mid-Hertfordshire, including Essendon, Hatfield, Hertford, Hitchin, Lemsford, Northaw, Potters Bar, Redbourne, Sandridge, St. Albans, Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City, and Wheathampstead.
| Holy Family, Welwyn Garden City, Roman Catholic |
The Parish Registers for the periods:-
- Baptisms - 1559-1978
- Marriages - 1559-1741, 1754-1988
- Burials - 1558-1934
- Bishop's Transcripts - 1604-1869
are deposited at Hertfordshire Record Office, County Hall, Hertford, SG13 8DE. [D/P119]
Entries from the Marriage Registers for the period 1558-1837 are included in The Allen Index at Hertfordshire Record Office.
The period 1558-1876 is covered by the IGI.
Transcripts of the parish registers for the period 1558-1934 are deposited at the Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, LONDON, EC1M 7BA.
The following records for churches in the ancient parish of Welwyn are also available at Hertfordshire Record Office, County Hall, Hertford, SG13 8DE.:-
- Woolmer Green [D/P119]
- Baptisms - 1900-1959
- Marriages - 1901-1981
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Welwyn to another place.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL230163 (Lat/Lon: 51.83178, -0.216389), Welwyn which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
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