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"About two miles and a half south from Hoddesdon, in the same hundred, is the small village of WORMLEY; the New river passes through the parish, and the river Lea bounds it on the east. Population of the parish, in 1831, 471 - being a decease of twenty-one inhabitants in the preceding ten years." [From Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of Herts, Pigot & Co., London, 1839]
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"The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, contains several monumental memorials, some of an early date; the edifice is entered by a Norman doorway, and the west end is surmounted by a square tower of wood."
[From Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of Herts, Pigot & Co., London, 1839]
There is a picture (78 kbytes) of the parish church of St. Lawrence, Wormley; supplied by Ian Rose.
The Parish Registers for the periods:-
- Baptisms - 1674-1974
- Marriages - 1685-1985
- Burials - 1676-1963
- Bishop's Transcripts - 1800-1869
are deposited at Hertfordshire Record Office, County Hall, Hertford, SG13 8DE. [D/P126]
Entries from the Marriage Registers for the period 1674-1837 are included in The Allen Index at Hertfordshire Record Office.
The period 1674-1859 is covered by the IGI.
Transcripts of the parish registers for the period 1674-1891 are deposited at the Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, LONDON, EC1M 7BA.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"WORMLEY, a parish in the hundred of Hertford, county Herts, 2 miles N.E. of Cheshunt, 2½ S.W. of Hoddesden, and 6 from Hertford. The parish is traversed by the Cambridge section of the Great Eastern railway and by the New River, and is bounded on the E. by the river Lea. In the Saxon times it was given by King Harold to Waltham Abbey, and having reverted to the crown at the Dissolution, was given by Henry VIII. to the North family, from whom it came to the Cromwells of Cheshunt. In the village is Wormley Bury, the residence of Earl Brownlow. The living is a rectory in the diocese of London, value £250. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, contains a painting of the Lord's Supper, by Palma, effigies in alabaster of W. Puerveye and lady, several altar-tombs of former rectors, and three brasses, the earliest bearing date 1479."
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