HERTFORD HUNDRED 



tiled roofs. On the side facing the street is an old 

 chimney, the lower intakes of which are concealed by 

 stepping the brickwork in front of the sloping portion 

 — a common mode of construction in Hertfordshire. 

 The infants' school to the north of the church is a 

 brick two-storied building of the same date, with a 

 good central chimney stack surmounted by four octa- 

 gonal shafts. 



The southern half of Panshanger Park is included 

 in this parish, the River Mimram, which runs 

 through the centre of the park, forming part of the 

 boundary. At the south-western corner of Panshanger 

 Park, on the Hertford road, is the hamlet of Cole 

 Green. Birch Green and Staines Green are farther 

 along the road towards Hertingfordbury. From Cole 

 Green a road goes south to Letty Green and 

 Woolmers Park, the latter the residence of Mr. Charles 

 Edward Wodehouse, M.A., J.P. In Woolmers Park, 

 to the east of the house, is a spring known as Arkley 

 or Acherley Hole. The water surface is about 70 ft. 

 long and 40 ft. wide, and the depth is said never to 

 have been found. It rises 

 directly through the chalk, 

 and in wet weather adds a 

 large volume to the River 

 Lea, whilst in dry weather it 

 ceases to flow. Eastend Green 

 and Roxford, now a farm at 

 which is a homestead moat, 

 lie about a mile to the west. 

 Birchall, where there is also a 

 homestead moat, is situated in 

 the west of the parish, beyond 

 Cole Green, and Hertingford- 

 bury Park, the residence of 

 Mr. Robert William Partridge, 

 is in the extreme east. 



There are two railway 

 stations on the Hertford branch 

 of the Great Northern rail- 

 way, one at Cole Green and 

 the other a short distance 

 south-east of the village of 

 Hertingfordbury. 



The subsoil of the parish is 

 chalk superimposed on the 

 south side by traces of the 

 Woolwich and Reading Beds, Lond> 

 earth, and there 

 gravel-pits to th> 

 Birchall occurs an 

 and Reading Bed: 



The inclosure 

 authorizing Act being passed 



HERTINGFORDBURY 



Talbottesland, Bauleys, Lcverounhull, Stockenhull, 

 Knyhteslond, Halpanyhache, Sampson eshache (xiv 

 cent.) ; John Amores, 3 Gorberyshot, Chilwelfeld, 

 Flamstead, Beryfeld and Chapmans (xvi cent.) ; 

 Copthall, Slabridge, Foxwell, Aldermaster, The 

 Thorpe, Hanging Grove and Wjtchfield (xvii cent.). 

 The manor of HERTINGFORD- 

 M4N0RS BURT was held before the Conquest 

 by Alwin, a thegn of Earl Harold, and 

 was given by William the Conqueror to Ralph Baynard 

 or Bangiard before 1086, when it was assessed at 

 5 hides.' Juga Baynard was probably Ralph's widow 

 and Geoffrey Baynard her son and heir. 6 A William 

 Baynard succeeded, who forfeited under Henry I, 

 when his barony was granted 

 Richard son of Gilbert de Clare, ; 

 Walters. 6 Hertingfordbury does r 

 to have been included in this grant, 

 given to Peter de Valognt 

 of Agnes de Valognes, wi 

 Roger,' in 1185.' At the 



Robert son of 

 r of the Fitz 

 t seem, however, 

 vas possibly 

 or it was in the possession 

 v of Peter's son and heir 

 : death of Robert son of 



Clay and brick 

 y disused chalk- pits and 

 est of Panshanger Park. At 

 snsive outlier of the Woolwich 



de 



181 3, the 



1801* Both ; 

 the custody of the clerk of the peace. Lampits Field 

 s inclosed in 1 841. 

 Place-names which occur in the parish are ; 



Roger about 1 194 Hertingfordbury came to his 

 daughter and heir Gunnora de Valognes,' who 

 married Robert Fitz Walter.' Their daughter 

 Christine," wife of William de Mandeville, died 

 without issue, and the Valognes estates were divided 

 between her three heirs, Lora de Baliol, Isabel 

 Comyn and Christine de Maune, daughters of Philip 

 de Valognes, cousin of Gunnora." Hertingfordbury 

 came eventually to Christine, the wife of Peter de 

 Maune or Maule,™ and passed before 1294 to Henry 



' Blue Si. lad. Awards, 64. 



3 The house standing in the fork of the 

 road to Cole Green and that towards Bay- 

 ford is called Amorei, and probably dates 

 back to the 14th century (Information 

 from Mr. Andrews). The name John 

 Lety (cf. Letty Green) occurs in 1541 

 {/* 9 .Non. [Rec. Com.], 431). 



* V.C.H. Herb, i, 326a. 



s Dugdale, Moh. Angl. vi, 147. The 

 editor of the Mtmairicon calls Juga sister 

 uf Ralph, but apparently without any 



foundation. See also Dugdale, Baro 

 s.v. Baynard ; Morant, His,, of Em. 

 4.37 ; Get!. Mag. 1826, pt. i, 418. 

 was lady of Little Dunmow (co. ti 

 the chief holding of the Baynard t, a 

 beginning of the I2th century. 



6 Dugdale, Man. loc. cit. ; Bars. 

 loc. cit. 



7 Dugdale, Man. iii, 346. 



s S. Grimaliii, Rot. de Dominabus, 3 

 9 Ablrev. P/ac. (Rec. Com.), 3. 



463 



10 Tim di Nevill (Rec. Com.), 269* ; 

 Rot. de Oblsth et Fia. (Rec. Com.), 414. 



" See Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 

 281 ; Cott, MS. Claud, dxiii, fol. 137, 



'■' See Bennington ; Feet of F. Div. Co. 

 2; Hen. Ill, no. 48. 



13 Chan. Iuij. p.m. 7 Edw. I, no. 43 ; 

 Tests de Ne-uill (Rec. Com.), zZib. She 

 is said to be holding it jointly with John 

 Comyn as late as 12*7 (see PUc. de Q u0 

 iVsrr. [Rec. Com.], 290 j Assise R.325}. 



