Great Munden Hertfordshire Family History Guide
Great Munden is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hertfordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Dane End, Haultwick, Artic, Nasty, and Munden Furnival.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MUNDEN (Great), a parish in Ware district, Herts; 2 miles W by S of Braughing r. station, and 6½ N of Ware. It contains the hamlet of Munden-Furnival, and parts of the hamlets of Dane-End and Haultwick; and its post town is Ware. Acres, 3, 352. Real property, £5, 124. Pop. in 1851, 554; in 1861, 457. Houses, 98. The property is divided among a few. Rowne a nunnery was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by the Duke of Brittany; but went to extinction before the time of Henry VI. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £705. Patron, King’s College, Cambridge. The church is partly Norman, but mainly decorated English, with some interpolated windows of later English; went into a ruinous condition; was restored, throughout the body, in 1866; and has a tower in still a dilapidated state. There is a parochial school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Hertfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Ware
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon (Hitchin Division)
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Rochester, Pre-1845 – Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – Baldock, Post-1844 – Bennington
- Poor Law Union: Ware
- Hundred: Broadwater
- Province: Canterbury