A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



in 1905 the Divines' Wing with accommodation for 

 fifty students was added. 5 ' St. Hugh's School was 

 originally a house designed by Pugin for Mr. W. G. 

 Ward, who in 1851 was appointed lecturer in moral 

 philosophy at the college. After he moved to North- 

 wood Park in 1858 the house became a preparatory 

 school for the college. The fourth provincial council 

 of Westminster was held at St. Edmund's College in 

 1873-" 



The repair of the many roads in the parish was a 

 heavy burden on the inhabitants of Standon. In 

 1389 a grant of pavage was made for repairing the 

 highway from All Saints' Chapel, Puckeridge, to 

 Lapden bridge/ 6 and in 1 390 the bailiffs and con- 

 stables of Standon, Puckeridge and Buntingford were 

 allowed a similar grant for the road between Wades- 

 mill and Buntingford and between Puckeridge and 

 Braughing. 57 About 4. miles of this road was repair- 

 able by Standon, and was particularly liable to get 

 into a bad state owing to the springs of water 

 arising in the swallowing clay and sandy places/ 8 



Situated on the North Road at a distance of 

 about a mile from each other are the hamlets of 

 High Cross (Heghe Crouch), Colliers End (Colyers- 

 end, xvi cent.), 5 '' and Puckeridge (Pockerich). Part 

 of Wadcsmill, a hamlet on the road further south, is 

 also in this parish. 60 These were settlements made 

 possibly in the 12th or 13th century as the traffic 

 increased along the main road. A grant of market 

 and fair at Puckeridge (see Milkley Manor) in 1314 

 witnesses to the growing importance of that hamlet. 

 Consequent on the numerous travellers along the road 

 there were many inns in the village. The name 

 of Chequers Inn dates back as early as 1473." The 

 Old George Inn remains on the west side of the 

 street, a two-storied building of timber and brick 

 n°gg' n 8 with a tiled roof and overhanging upper 

 story on the north end of the street front, dating 

 from the 17th century. Two cottages at the north 

 end of the village now used as stables are probably of 

 the late 1 6th century. They are built of timber 

 with brick nogging and have tiled roofs. In the 

 north front are two four-centred doorways, one with 

 moulded edges and enriched spandrels. Thorpe 

 Hall on the east side of the street, once an inn, is a 

 1 7th-century house of two stones. It is of plastered 

 timber construction with tiled roofs, and has a 

 timber gateway on the south side. Close by is the 

 Crown and Falcon Inn, dating from about the 

 middle of the 1 6th century. It is a timber house, 

 plastered, with projecting upper story on the south 

 and west sides and a timber gateway. Near this inn 

 was the common pump. as The chapel of All Saints, 

 Puckeridge, was founded as a chantry chapel by 

 Richard de Gatesbury (for whom see Gatesbury in 

 Braughing), who in 1320 had licence to endow it 

 with lands and rent in Braughing, Puckeridge, Gates- 

 bury and elsewhere.* 3 These lands w 



is formed 

 . End and 



fully claimed as dower by Agnes wife of Thomas 

 Tuwc, widow of Adam de Gatesbury.** The exact 

 site of this chapel is not known, but it was situated 011 

 the main road. 65 There is still no church at Pucke- 

 ridge, but a Congregational chapel was built in 

 183Z. 1 ' 5 '' The Church of England school and lecture 

 room were built in 1862. 



The ecclesiastical district of High Cross w 

 in 1845. It includes the hamlet of Collie 

 part of Wadesmill. The church of St. John the 

 Evangelist, High Cross, was built in 1847 by Lady 

 Giles-Puller and her son Mr. Christopher William 

 Puller. High Cross elementary school was built in 

 1866. The church of St. Mary at Colliers End, a 

 small red brick building, was built as a mission church 

 in 1910 by Mr. E. E. Wickham of Plashes in 

 memory of his wife. William Davies (1814-91), 

 mineralogist and palaeontologist at the British 

 Museum, had a residence at Colliers End, where 

 he died in 1891. 



In the reign of King Edward the 

 MANORS Confessor the manor of ST4NDON was 

 held by Archbishop Stigand, under 

 whom were six sokemen each holding 1 hide. After 

 the Conquest it was presumably acquired by 

 Walter Giffard, lord of Longuevillc, for in 1086 

 it formed part of the possessions of Rohais his 

 daughter, then wife of Richard de Tollbridge, lord 

 of Clare. It was assessed at 1 1 hides, of which 6 

 were in demesne ; and there 

 was land for twenty-four 

 ploughs, but only seventeen 

 ploughs were on the manor. 

 The extent included five mills 

 and 2 arpents of vineyard. 00 

 The manor remained in the 

 family of Clare. Gilbert 

 son of Richard (grandson of 

 Richard of 1086) was created 

 Earl of Hertford about 1138. 

 His nephew Richard de Clare 

 married Amicia daughter and 

 co-heir of William Fitz Robert 

 Earl of Gloucester, and Gilbei 



He died in 



Richard de Clare, the n 

 Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, for his 

 king's service. 69 In the following reign Richard de 

 Clare was presented for withholding the payment for 

 sheriff's aid and view of frankpledge for Standon, and 

 also for withdrawing suit at the hundred and county 

 courts which was said to be owed for the whole vill 

 by Geoffrey de Lcukenore by reason of his tenure of 

 certain lands. The earl also claimed warren on the 

 lands of his free tenants and had appropriated the 

 fishery in the river which he sold to 

 of Standon. 63 His son Gilbert Earl of 



cht-u,,™ 



l de Clare, their son, 

 Led as Earl of Gloucester about I2i8. 67 

 1230 ; during the minority of the heir. 



9 granted to Gilbert 



