Bayford is a chapelry of Essendon Ancient Parish in Hertfordshire.
Alternative names: Brickendon
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604
Nonconformists include:
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BAYFORD, a parish in the district and county of Hertford; on the river Lea, near the Hatfield and Hartford railway, 3 miles SSW of Hertford. It has a post-office under Hertford. Acres, 1,632. Real property, £2,138. Pop., 297. Houses, 61. The property is not much divided. The manor belonged, before the Conquest, to Earl Tosti, the Dane; and passed afterwards to the Knightons, the Fanshaws, and the Bakers. Bayfordbury, the present seat of the Bakers, contains the portraits of the Kit-Cat club, brought hither from Barnes-Elms. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; and till 1867 was annexed to Essendon. Value, £150. Patron, W. R. Baker, Esq. The church was built in 1802. There is a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BAYFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union, hundred, and county of Hertford, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Hertford; containing 357 inhabitants. It comprises by admeasurement 1612 acres of land; the soil is clay. The living is annexed to the rectory of Essendon: the tithes have been commuted for £282. The church is a neat brick edifice, built by subscription in 1804, and containing an ancient octangular font ornamented with quatrefoils and roses.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
Administration
- County: Hertfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Hertford
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon (Hitchin Division)
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Rochester, Pre-1845 – Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Hertford
- Poor Law Union: Hertford
- Hundred: Hertford
- Province: Canterbury