A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



governed the town until 1 894, when by the Local 

 Government Act of that year it was replaced by an 

 urban district council. The county court district 

 of Stortford was formed in 184.7. 48 Stortford is also 

 the head of a union, the union buildings lying some 

 way to the south-east of the town, off the Dunmow 

 Road. 48 The isolation hospital of the Hadham and 

 Stanstead rural district and the Saw bridge worth 

 urban district is also in this parish. In 1895 a 

 hospital was given to the town by members of the 

 Frere family and built on a site on the north of the 

 town presented by Sir Walter Gilbey, who also built 

 the King's Cottage Homes in South Street, to which 

 an additional block has lately been added by Admiral 

 F. Van der Meulen. 



The ecclesiastical parish of Holy Trinity, New 

 Town, was formed in 1S60, 50 and the church in 

 South Street built in 1859. A congregation of 

 Independents was formed here in 1662. sl In the 

 18th century they acquired a chapel in Water Lane," 

 and the present Congregational Church, built in 

 1859, is in that street. Incumbents of some note 

 were Richard Rawlin, 1687-1759, and John An^us, 

 1724-1801." A Wesleyan congregation was formed 

 about 1823, and in 1866 a chapel was buiTt in 

 South Street. This was superseded by a chapel on 

 the west side of the road, built about 1908. A 

 Baptist chapel was built in Sandpit Field in 1819" 

 but was pulled down in 1 899 and the present 

 chapel built. s * There were Friends in the parish 

 as early as 1665, and a meeting-house (successor 

 to a former one) was built in the New Tr.vn Road 

 in i 709.'* The meeting has now been discontinued, 

 but the old house still stands on the north side of 

 the road. Baron Dimsdale, the famous inoculator, 

 was buried in the Friends' burial ground. The 

 cemetery on the south of the town was made in I S 5 5. 



In Hadham Road is Bishop's Stortford Grammar 

 School, representing the foundation of Margaret Dane 

 of 1579. After its discontinuance for many years 

 the school was revived in i8;o, chiefly through the 

 efforts of the vicar, the Rev. F. W. Rhodes." His 

 son, the Rt. Hon. Cecil Rhodes, was born at a house 

 at the end of South Street, and was educated at the 

 grammar school. The Nonconformist school now 

 called the Bishop's Stort'ord College in Maze Green 

 Road was opened in ]S6S by the East of England 

 Nonconformist School Company, who acquired the 

 buildings and land of the Stortford Collegiate School, 

 an unsectarian school opened in 1850 just before the 

 old grammar school was revived. There arc public 

 elementary schools at Northgate End (built in 1*39), 

 in Apton Road (built in 1872), and in South Street 

 (built in 1852), a County Council secondary school 

 built in 1910 in Warwick Road, and a Technical 

 Institute in Church Street. The Diocesan Training 

 College for Schoolmistresses in Hockerill was opened 

 in .852. 



** Land. Ga 3 . 10 Mi 



19 Th= old workhoi 

 >- 93 (see S«>. 8. [I 

 ii, ,77) stood on tl 

 HockEr;:i Street and i 

 milting (information 

 Glasscock). 



10 Land. Gas. 25 Jar 



Hockerill (Hokerhulle, xiv cent.) JS forms a suburb 

 of Bishop's Stortford and lies on the east side of 

 the river at the intersection of the London Road and 

 the Dunmow Road. Hockerill Bridge is mentioned 

 in the 14th century." Here also are a number of 

 old houses, among which may be mentioned the 16th- 

 century timber and plaster house which was once the 

 Old Red Lion Inn. It is of two stories and has a 

 projecting upper story carried on two carved brackets. 

 It contains some 16th-century oak panelling. On 

 the south side of the main road is a cottage probably 

 of the early 17th century with original brick central 

 chimney stack, and the Cock Inn, which is a timber 

 and plaster house of about 1600 with carved barge- 

 boards in the gables. At the Crown Inn, which stood 

 on the south side of Hockerill, the manorial courts of 

 Bishop's Stortford were held. This was an important 

 inn in coaching days, as it was the second stopping 

 place for coaches travelling from London to Cam- 

 bridge and Newmarket. The premises now used as a 

 malting were part of the stables. 80 The church of 

 All Saints was built in 1852 and the vicarage tn 1894. 

 An elementary school for boys was built in 1868. 



Plaw Hatch, about I mile cast of Stortford, is the 

 residence of Mr. C. J. Hegan, J.P. ; The Grange, of 

 Sir John Barker, bart., J.P. ; Whitehall, of Mr. T. 

 Gilbey, J.P. ; and Wcstfield House, in the Hadham 

 Road,' of Mr. F. Wilby. 



The manor of STORTFORD 

 held in the reign of King 



Edward the C 



CJSTLE 4ND 

 MjNORS 



was sold by Willi. 

 (105.-7;)/' «™ 

 Bishop of Londc 

 assessed in the 

 Survey at 6 hides. 

 was land for ten 

 although there were 

 plough lands under 



included is 



manor. S2 Stortford r 



part of the lands of the 



bishopric until 1868. It 



seems to have been usually 



farmed out by the Bishops of 



London Occasionally the 



offices of keeper of the gaol, 



farmer of the manor, farmei 



mills, and farmer of the park were held by the 



same person, ^ but generally the custody of the 



gaol was held separately from the farm of the 



manor, m although accounts for 1 346 show the 



custodian of the gaol also the farmer of the market 



and mills. 65 The farm of the whole manor, including 



courts, markets, fairs, &c, amounted in 1437-8 to 



£40, reservation being made by the lord of the 



Paul c> 



ledmltir, 



trdi of Si. 



of the 



south side of 



(. Bhg. 



56 Urwiclt, op. cit- 706. 

 " V.C.H. Hera, ii, tl. 



William w« a pre -Con que it biihop, who 

 acquired a number of estates by purchaie 



00 ; 5m. R. (Herts. Co." Ret), i, 

 " Close, 19 Geo. II, pt. vi, m. 



tl by Mr. J. L. Gin 



2q6 



. 3°8, 270. 



1. bdle. 1 140, no. 41. 



. Two mills, it men- 

 given in the Dometdar 



ill conveyed in Feet of 

 H,„. HI, ... 44. „,, 



