Little Hadham Hertfordshire Family History Guide
Little Hadham is a chapelry of Much Hadham Ancient Parish in Hertfordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Green Street and Bury Green.
Alternative names: Hadham
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1559
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629; 1802
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HADHAM (LITTLE), a village and a parish in Bishop Stortford district, Herts.
The village stands on the river Ash, near the boundary with Essex, 3 miles WNW of Bishop Stortford town and r. station; and has a post-office under Ware, and a fair on 15 July.
The parish includes also the hamlets of Bury Green and Green Street. Acres, 3, 068. Real property, £4, 602. Pop., 864. Houses, 192. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the bishops of London; and passed to successively the Bands, the Darcys, and the Capels. Hadham Hall and Hadham Park are chief residences.
The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Great Hadham, in the diocese of Rochester. The church is early English, in good condition; and consists of nave, aisle, transept, and chancel, with porch, and square embattled tower.
A national school was built in 1861; and there are charities nearly £30.
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: Bishops Stortford
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Rochester, Pre-1845 – London
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – Braughing, Post-1844 – Bishop’s Stortford
- Poor Law Union: Bishop’s Stortford
- Hundred: Edwinstree
- Province: Canterbury