DIRECTORY.] . ABBOTS LANGLEY. 11 ABBOTS LANGLEY (or Chiltern Langley) is a parish for men whose wages do not exceed 30S. per week. one mile and a half east from King's Langley station, £36 19s. 3d. from various charities left by Francis on the main line of the London and Korth Western Coombe, of , in 1641, Mrs. Susaunl10 railway, 4! miles south-east from Hemel Hempstead, Freeman, Lady Charlotte Barbara Villiers, in 1810, and about 3 north from and 21 from London, in by others, is distributed in money and clothing to the the Western division of the county, Cashio hundred, poor of the parish. Nicholas Breakespeare, elected Pope, Watford union, petty sessional division and county court as Adrian IV. 3 Dec. 1154. is said to have been born district, rural deanery of Watford, and archdeaconry here, c. IIOO, and died I Sept. II59. A pleasure fair and diocese of St. Alban's; it derives its name from is held on the 1st May. A village horticultural show having been at an early period granted to the abbey of for cottage gardeners is held annually, when prizes are St. Albans in contra-distinction to the adjoining parish awarded; and about 70 garden allotments are under of King's Langley. The church of St. Lawrence is an cultivation at , Railway terrace and Trolley ancient building of flint, in the Norman and later styles bottom. Readings, lectures and concerts are given and consists of chancel with a large aisle on its south during the winter season. Cecil Lodge, pleasantly seated side, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and an em­ amidst beautiful scenery, is the residence of Richard battled tower at the west end containing a clock and 6 Betton Foster esq. Manor House, on the high road at bells, the first five dating from 1734 and the tenor from the entrance of the parish, is the residence of John 1809: there can be little doubt that a Saxon church Inett Ward esq. Langley House, the residence of existed on this site, for at the Domesday Survey there Robert Henty esq. J.P. is a large mansion. The Manor was a resident priest here: it was enlarged about belongs to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and 1200 and a nave and aisles added: of the Norman Trinity College, Oxford. The principal landowners are building, only the arcade of the nave now remains: the the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Essex, the Earl of chancel was rebuilt in part by Abbot John de la Mook Verulam, Edward Henry Loyd esq. of . (1396-1401) and completed, after his death, by William King's Langley, John Dickinson esq. of Abbots hill, de Westwyk, "Camerarius" of St. Albans abbey: the , Sir John Evans K.C.B. and Henry Reynolds chancel aisle was built about the same time, but the Solly esq. of Bedmond, St. Stephens, St. Albans. The soil is wall dividing it from the chancel was not pierced with gravelly; subsoil, chalk and clay. The chief crops are arches until 1840: the octagonal font dates from wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 5,255 about 14°°: at the west end of the south aisle of tlie acres of land and 26 water; rateable value, £22,379; nave is a marble monument to Robert Lord Chief the population in 1891 was 3,230. Justice Raymond, with a full-sized figure of the judge in a reclining posture, in his judicial robes; he was BEDMONT (or Bedmond) and Sheppeys form a born in 1673, became Chief Justice of , 2 March, large hamlet I mile north; Kitters Green, half a mile 1724, and was created Baron Raymond of Abbot's south, and Trolley Bottom, half a mile south-east, are Langley, 15 Jan. 1731; he died 19 March, 1732: there other hamlets; Primrose Hill adjoins King's Langley, are brasses, with effigies, to Rauffe Horwood, ob. 1498, and is in that ecclesiastical parsh. and his wives Elizabeth and Joan, with three sons and Parish Clerk, Mr. John G. Chalk. three daughters; Thomas Cogdell, yeoman, ob. 16°7, Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Insur­ and his wives Jane and Alice, and to a lady, c. 1570; ance Office.-Thos. Turner, sub-postmaster. Letters the male effigy and three figures of children are lost; arrive through King's Langley R.S.O. delivered at 7.25 there is also an inscribed brass to Robert Nevyll, ob. & 10.25 a.m. & 6 p.m.; dispatched at 8.20 a.m. 11.15 1475, and Elyn his wife, figures lost, 1475 to 16°7, and a a.m. & 2.45, 6.45 & 8 p.m. Sundays, delivered at mural monument of marble, with the effigy of a female 7.55 a.m.; dispatched at 10.15 a.m in the act of prayer, to Annie, wife of Francis Coombe esq. of Hemel Hempstead, 164°-41: the church was Post Office, Bedmont.-Miss O1arlotte Kate Gentle, thoroughly restored and reseated in 1867: there are sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from King's Langley four stained windows: there are 500 sittings, 150 R.S.O. at 7.15 a.m.; dispatched at 8.20 a.m. & 5.40 being free. The register dates from the year 1538. p.m. Sundays, arrive at 7.15 a.m.; dispatched at The living is a discharg-ed vicarage, average tithe rent­ 10.40 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph charge £170, net yearly value £52, with 3 acres of office is at Abbots Langley . glebe and residence, in the g-ift of E. Henry Loyd esq. Schools. and held since 1893 by the Rev. Arthur Henry Parnell National (boys, girls &; infants), erected in 1853 &; RA. of Merton College, Oxford. There is a small iron enlarged in 1885, for 164 boys, 122 girls &; 140 infants; church at Bedmont, erected in 1880 by William Ham­ average attendance, 120 boys, IQI girls &; 121 infants; mond Solly esq. J.P., D.L. and seating ISO persons, William Robert High, master; Miss Victoria Barker, and there are also Congregational, Wesleyan and Baptist mistress; Miss Ann Elizabeth Bonaker, infants' mist chapels. The Booksellers' Provident Retreat, erected National, Bedmout, opened in 1871 & enlarged in 1886, in 1846, consists of seven houses in the Tudor style, for 74 infants; average attendance, 60; Mrs. Sweet­ for members and their widows, who are elected after ing, mistress 60 years of age and receive annuities ranging from These schools have annual endowments of £25 I6s. 9a. 20 to 50 guineas; secretary, 'George Larner, 48 Pater­ from the benefaction of David White, of Epsom, noster row E C. There is a Conservative Club, estab­ Surrey, in 1725; £10 15s. from Combe's charity, as lished in 1886. The parish doctor's club is available above &; £10 13S. 4d. Mrs. Susanna Freeman's bequest

ABBOTS LANGLEY. Sharrock Samuel, Trowley house Collins James, plumber, Abbots road Tomlin Joseph, Brooklyn cottage Davis Alfred, Compasses P.R PllIVATE RESIDENTS. Ward Inett, Manor house Davis William, farmer, Well farm Annear Richard, I Elm villas COMMERCIAL. Doult Thos. jun. frmr. North end Armstrong Thomas, Abbots house Atki'ns Jonah, farmer, Breakspeare rd Edmonds Wm. frmr. Hyde La. frm Ashby George, Abbots road Atkinson Richd. frmr. Numbers farm Flisher Fred~rick Chas. F.R.C.S.Eng. Atkinson Henry, Ivydene Austin John Charles & Co. groceril L.S.A. surgeon Bateman John, Abbots road Bailey John Edmond, farmer, Mill- Gatheram Jas. farmer, Hyde farm Carlill Stephe'n, Alva house farm Gibbs GeG,< &; Mary Ann (Miss), bkrs Cooper Eli J ames, Alloa Bailey Miss, farmer, Bedmont hill Goodwin Mary (Miss), dress maker Foster Richard Betton, Cecil lodge Beeson Edmund, smith RaIse William, assistant overseer &; Gaillard Peter, Hillbank Bonaker Hannah (Mrs.), saddler rate collector, 2 Abbots road GilIilian William, Abbots hill Bonaker John, registrar of births &; RaIse William Thomas, builder &; un- Guthrie James, Glencairn deaths, Abbots Langley sub-dis- dertaker, Ashleigh cottage, Ab- lIaIse William Thomas, Ashleigh cot- trict, Watford union, &; tax collech bots road tage, Abbots road Breed! Springle, frmr. Parsonage frm Harns Charles, boot maker lIarvey William Alfred, Sunnyside Breed Geo. frmr. Mansio'n House frm Hedges George, dairyman lIenty Robert J.P. Langley house Brooks John, hair dresser Hill William, draper lIutchins William, Abbots road Burrage John Sidney builder &; un- Hills Martha (Mrs.), beer retailer &; Layton Cuthbert Thomas, Ayr col dertaker, Abbots road shopkeeper Luck John William, Chicago cottage Busby Homer, bldr. &; undertaker Janes William, farmer &; seed mer­ Morris Rev. Harold Safford M.A. Cannon Lydia (Mrs.), draper, 5 chant, Hunters hall (Lettilrs through (curate) Temple villas Watford) Norvell William, Silverthorn Cave William, fishmonger King Susan (Mrs.), beer retailer &; l'arnell Rev. Arthur Henry B.A. (vier) Chalk John George, tailor shopkeeper Pegler Holmes, Zoffany house Cole James, beer retailer, Pimlico Martin James, butcher Rowse Edward, Kitters green Conservative Club ( Ed. Charles Hal- Morrish Charles, beer retailer Scrivenor :Miss, Causeway house sey, sec.), Adnan villa Peddar Richard J oseph, beer retailer