A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



cottage ; it is of timber framing plastered between 

 the timbers and has an overhanging upper story. 

 On the east side of the road is the Hall, the resi- 

 dence of Mr. H. Bacon, J. P., a plain early 18th- 

 century brick house, standing in its own grounds ; 

 it has good wrought-iron entrance gates. There is 

 some more early 18th-century ironwork in front of 

 a small house on the west side of the road near the 

 north end of the village. The school on the east 

 side of the road was founded in 1720.'' 



At the south end of the village stood Hadham 

 Cross.' Near the site of this is Yew Tree Farm,^" 

 a house of early 1 7th-century date, timber-framed 

 and plastered between the timbers. The roof is 

 thatched. On the front are two small oriel windows 

 on curved brackets, and in the centre is a roof dormer 



house stands in a small park and is the residence of 

 Mrs. Pasteur. Moor Place, the residence of Mr. 

 F. H. Norman, D.L., J. P., stands to the west of the 

 village and appears to be on the site of the park 

 formerly belonging to the Bishops of London.'* 

 An earlier park belonging to the see lay at a con- 

 siderable distance from the Palace on the south-east 

 of the parish, where the house called Old Park still 

 marks the site of it. In 1 199 the Bishop of London 

 gave two parts of the ' Old Park ' at Hadham to 

 found a chantry for the souls of the Bishops of 

 London in the lower chapel of the bishop's palace.'* 

 The pasture in the Old Park was farmed out by the 

 bishops in the 15th century" as well as the lands 

 and pasture of the demesne." Old Hall, to the 

 south-west of Moor Place, now a farm, was once the 



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Yew Tme Farm, Much Hadham 



with the letters wrs and date 1697 in the gable ; 

 this date probably refers to the dormer only. The two 

 chimney stacks are of thin bricks, with small pilasters 

 on their faces. The Congregational chapel close by 

 was built in 1872. There is a railway station to 

 the south-west of the village on the Buntingford 

 branch of the Great Eastern railway. 



Culver Lodge, now the residence of Mrs. William 

 Jowitt, was in 1873 a convent dedicated in honour 

 of the Holy Child Jesus." Further south still is the 

 house called Wynches^ a name dating from as early as 

 1 6 1 o, when the ' tenement called Winches ' was 

 occupied by Nicholas Brett, yeoman. i^ The present 



■ See Charities. 



' This is mentioned in 1663 (5«j. R. 

 [Herts. Co. Rec.], i, 156). 

 '^ There was an earlier house called by 



property of the Newce family. Close by is Kettle 

 Green, to the south of which, at Moat Farm, 

 is a homestead moat. There is another homestead 

 moat at Brand's Farm, a little to the north-west. 

 This farm is connected with the village by a road 

 called Cox Lane. Carldane Court on the north- 

 west of the village (see manors) is the residence of 

 Mr. Franklyn Arden Crallan. It is a 16th-century 

 house of half-timber on a brick foundation. During 

 recent alterations a stone bearing the initials e h and 

 TH 1682 was found. Some of the rooms have 16th- 

 century panelling and two contain fine open fire- 

 places 



the same name ; see Cusjans, Hist, of 

 Hern. Edivinstree Hund. 171. 



" Cussans, loc. cit. 



"Will printed in Hera. Gen. and 

 Antitj. ii, 104. 



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" See Moor Place under manors. 

 '* ChauQcy, op. cit. 153. 

 " Mins. Accts. bdle. 11 30, no. lu 

 •« I;id. 



