Little Gaddesden Hertfordshire Family History Guide
Little Gaddesden is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hertfordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Hudnall.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1681
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Studham, Bedfordshire
- Great Gaddesden
- Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire
- Pitstone, Buckinghamshire
- Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire
- Nettleden, Buckinghamshire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GADDESDEN (Little), a parish in Berkhampstead district, Herts; on the river Gade, near the boundary with Bucks and Beds, 3¾ miles NE of Tring r. station, and 5 N of Great Berkhampstead. It has a post-office under Hemel-Hempstead. Acres, 924. Real property, £1, 826. Pop., 386. Houses, 83. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Zouches; passed to the Stanleys and the Egertons; and belongs now to Earl Brownlow. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £302. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church is good; has an embattled tower; and contains monuments of the Egertons. There are a national school, and charities £33. John de Gaddesden, the famous physician of the early part of the 14th century, was a native.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Hertfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Berkhampstead
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon (Hitchin Division)
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Rochester, Pre-1845 – Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Berkhampstead
- Poor Law Union: Berkhampstead
- Hundred: Dacorum
- Province: Canterbury