THE HUNDRED OF BROADWATER 



ASTON 



AYOT ST. LAWRENCE 



AYOT ST. PETER 



BALDOCK 



BENINGTON 



DATCHWORTH 



DIGSWELL 



GRAVELEY 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES C 



HATFIELD or 



BISHOP'S HATFIELD 

 KNEBWORTH 

 LETCHWORTH 

 GREAT MUNDEN 

 LITTLE MUNDEN 

 SACOMBE 

 STEVENAGE 



TOTTER I DGE 



WALKERN 



WATTON-AT-STONE 



WELWYN 



WESTON 



WILLIAN 



GREAT WYMONDLEY 



LITTLE WYMONDLEY 



The hundred of Broadwater takes its name from a little hamlet on the 

 boundary line between the parishes of Knebworth and Shephall, at a point 



about two miles south of 

 Stevenage where the main 

 road from Hertford and a road 

 from Aston join the Great 

 North Road. 



At the time of the Domes- 

 day Survey Broadwater Hun- 

 dred included Shephall, which 

 is situated in the centre of the 

 hundred, but was in the 13th 

 century attached to Cashio 

 Hundred as a possession of St. 

 Alban's Abbey ; Norton on the 

 northern boundary and Codi- 

 cote (with Oxewiche) on the 

 west, which were at the same 

 time detached for the like 

 reason; Langley with Minsden, 

 and Almshoe 1 (in Ippollitts), 

 which were afterwards attached 

 to Hitchin Hundred ; and part 

 of Tewin, now in Hertford 

 Hundred, which was probably 

 attached to Broadwater because 

 it belonged to the Abbot of 

 Westminster, one of whose 

 principal manors in Hertford- 

 shire was at Stevenage. 



U OP Oroadwatek t 1 - 1 ■ 



1 wo places now in this 

 D hundred are not mentioned in 



Baldock, which was in the 12th century formed 



« pertaining to Broadwater Hundred as late u 1651 (Pari. Suit. 



the Domesday Survey : 



1 Almshoebur)- k mentions 

 Herts, no. 1). 



