DIRECTORY. 241 WALKERN. [HERTS.] lNSURANCB AGENTS:- Union, Peter R. Dewshury, esQ.. High street Britannia L~fe, G. L. Faithfull, esq. Hi!!=h street Surgeo1l to Great Berkhamp1tead §; Aylesbury Union, British ~ Foreign Alliance Fire §; Life, Alexander Edward Pope, esq. High street Thomas.Parkf's, High street Registrar of Births~ De$thsjor Di,strict, Mark County Hailstorm, A. T. Parkes Young, Prospect house Clerical, Medical~ General. Ebenezer Chas. Bird, High st Deputy Registrar of Births ~ Deaths for Tring Dis­ County Fire ~ Provident Life, Thomas Elliman, High st trict, Thomas Fleet,jun. West end European Life, William Wilcox:, High street Relieving Officer for Great Berkhampstead Union, General Life~ Fire, Thomas Clement & Son, High street Garnett Jones, West end London Union, J ames Sowerby, Stockdale, Akeman street Secretary to the Tring Agricultural Association, Wil- Norwich Union Fire~ Life, John Chapman, High street liam Brown, High street . Official ~ General Life, Henry Tompkins, High street Secretary to the Tring Benefit Building Society, ~ to Palladium Lif'e, James Norris, High street the Tring Associationjor the Prosecution of Felons, §; Phamix Fire, J ames N orris Tring Gas~ Coke Company, Alexander Thomas Parkes, Royal Exchange Fire §; Life, Knight & Andrews, High st High street .Royal Naval~ Military L·ife, Mark Young, Prospect ho National School, West end, Thomas Reynolds, master; Scottish Widows', Frederick Butcher (Bank), High street .Miss Dinah Wallis, mistress Sun Fire, William Brown, High street PosTING HousE-' Rose & Crown,' High street .PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS:- OMNIBUS from the' Rose & Crown,' High street, to meet Excise Office,' Rose & Crown,' High street every train Stamp O.ffice, Ebenezer Charles B1rd, High street CARRIERS TO:- Tring Ford Engines (Grand Junction Canal), William AsTON CLINTON-Horwood, from' Rose&; Crown,' satur­ Woodhouse, eng;ineer, Little Tring day, 10 morning Mechan'ics' Institute, High street, Mr. Carter Grace, sec AYLESBURY-Eiliott, from' Rose&; Crown,' tburs. 3 aft Depository for Book1 .for the Christian Knowledge AYLESBURY&; QUAINTON-Slade, from Bell inn, friday, Society, John Kinuell, High street 12 noon "PUBLIC OFFICERS:- LONDON-Hedges, from Plough inn, daily, per railway, Clerks to the J.llagistrates of Bucks ~ Herts, G. L. 7 morning, sunday excepted ; Horwood, from ' Rose & Faith full, esq. Higll street Crown,' thursday, 11 morning; Slade, from Bell inn, Superintendent Registrar of Births, Deaths t Mar­ wedne~day, 4 afternoon riagesjor Great Berkhampstead Union, G. L. Faith­ LoNG MA.RSTON-Rodwell,from 'Green Man,'friday,4 aft full, esq. High street W A.DDESDON-Crook,from Bell inn, thursday, 3 afternoon Certifying Surgeon of Factories, Peter R. Dewsbury, W A.TER CARRIERs.-5 Wharf, Paddington, .!.\'lead & esq. High street Bailey, 3 days per week Surgeon of the Second District of Great Berkhampstead WALXEKN is a village in Broad water Hundred, Hert- of witchcraft, but was afterwards pardoned. On the ford Union, on a feeder of the , distant from brook is a mill. The street is 1 mile long. The area of 6 miles, and 4 east from station, the parish is 2,924 acres, and the population, in 1851, was Great Northern railway, and 32 from London. The 738. The Earl of Essex is lord of the manor. A Na­ church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, an ancient struc- tional school was built in 1854, to which an additional ture in the Norman style, with square tower and 5 bells, room was added by the rector, containing about 100 has been repaired; and the living is a rectory, value £600, children, under a mistress and two Government pupil­ with 16 acres of glebe, in the bishopric of Rochester, and teachers. gift of King's College, Cambridge; the incumbent is At W ALKERN BURY, 1 mile east, are the remains of the Rev. John Harding, M.A. In the year 1712 Jane a castle; BAssAs GREEN is 1 mile east; CLAY END is 1Venham, who was a native of this village, was convicted g miles south-east; CHEI.LS is q miles south-west. GENTRY. Darby MrB. farmer Pearman Thomas, farmer, Rooks nest Harding Rev. John, M.A. [rector] Dickerson Joseph, shoemaker Petitt George,' Red Lion,' & plumber Pryor John Izard, esq. Clay hall Dilley Philip, shopkeeper & glazier TRADERS. Elliott Ht'n. bricklayer & beer retailer Porter Samuel, farmer Aburn Nathan, beer retailer, Clay end Garratt Thomas, miller, 'Valkern mill Ra.ment Jame!', farmer, Walkern park Allison James, shopkeeper Hill Robert, farmer, the Bury Rowlatt Thomas, farmer Aylot George, carpenter Kitchiner George, butcher Rust John, tailor Bray William, wheelwri!~ht & smith Knott James, shopkeeper Savage James, farmer Bridges Mrs. farmer, Walkern hall Martin John, harness maker Savage William, farmer, Bassas green Cannon Mc1rtha (:1\lrs.), shopkeeper Pearman Daniel, baker Stockbridge Thos. bakf'r & corn dealer Cannon Owen, poulterer Pearman Edwd. farmer, Boxwood farm Waldron Richard,' White Lion' Cock Chas. blacksmith & beer retailer Pearman George David, miller Wright Samuel, maltster & farmer PosT OFFICE.-William Aylot, receiver. Letters through National School, Miss Dann, mistress Buntin~ford arrive at 9 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. in CARRIER-Owen Cannon, to • on saturdays, & winter & 6 p.m. in summer. The nearest money order returns on snndays office is at Stevenage WA'LLJ:NCTON is a. village in Odsey Hundred and of the Master and Fellows of Emanuel College, CambridgE', :Buntingford Union, near a feeder of the river Beane, and and incumbency of Rev. G. R. Tuck. A National school on the ridge of the chalk range, 3 miles east of , was built irr 1840. Orr METLEY HILL, 1 mile north, is 6 north-west of Buntingford, and 8 from Royston. The BusH BARROW. SHA w GREEN is 1 mile south. area of the parish is 1,950 acres, and the population, in RED HILL is a bamlet, partly in Wallington, and partly 1851, was 251:. The church is ancient, and has 5 belli!. in Saudon parishes. Tbe living is a rectory, value ,£393, in the patronage Tuck Rev. George Robt. trector] DraperJames, farmer Smyth James, farmer 'Bonfield James, shoemaker Lilley George Lewis, farmer Letters through Baldock, which is Mary (Mr3.), farmer Pickett Thomas, shopkeeper also the nearest money order office National Schoal, l\liss Mary Ann Seoot, mistress WAKB, with GT. AMWB:r.:r.. sackmaking, and brickmaking. The Petty sessions are WARE, which is closely connected with Hertford, is a held here once a fortnight, and meetings of the board of market and union town and railway station, situated on guardians. The population was returned, in 1851, at 5,088, the river Lea. and Hertford railway, 2 miles east of Hert- and the number of acrE's is 4,700. Tbe management of the ford, and 21 from London by road, and 24! by railway, in navigable canal, known aB the River Lea, is vested in the Hundred of Braughin. There are several handsome trustees under several Acts of Parliament; the funds, family residences in the neighbourhood, and some in the which are considerable, arising from tolls, are wholly town, and the inhabitants are in general wealthy. The laid out in the improvement and maintenance of the JJavi­ :principal trade of the place is in malt, the annual return of gation; the managh1g clerk is John 1\larchant, Esq., who excise duty on wlli<'h article far exceeds any other town resides at Hertford. In 1850 a bill passed for improving in the kingdom. There have been as many as 80 malt- thiB navigaticm. The market day is on Tuesday, and the ho11ses in t·uu work. There is some brewing, ropemaking, fairs are held the last Tuesday in .April, and the Tuesday Q