HERTFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's Is Lord of the Manor, Henry Rucks Gibbs Esq
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14 ALDENBAM. HERTFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S is lord of the manor, Henry Rucks Gibbs esq. and Sir ro.35 a.m.; High Cross cleared at 6.5 p.m.; sunday, Walter George Frank Phillimore hart. D. C.L. of Ship 10.5 a.m lake House, Henley-on-Thames, are the principal land Schools. owners. The soil here is light; subsoil, gravelly and yields good crops of wheat, barley and oats; on the The endowed Grammar school, which, with six alms south side of .Aldenham is heavy clay land. The area houses, was founded in 1597 by Richard Platt, brewrr is 6,033 acres of land and 8o water, including .Aldenham & alderman of London, was much enlarged in 1835 & & Abbey, or Wall Hall, of 38 acres, said to be extra a covered playground, swimming bath cricket field were added about r88z; a scheme for the parochial; rateable value, £21,746; the population in management of the school was approved in 1875, 18g1 was 2,085 of which 1,260 is attached to the parish under which the governing body consists of fifteen church. persons, the lord-lieutenant, two county members & Radlett is an ecclesiastical parish formed from this the chairman of quarter sessions being members parish in r865 and will be found under a separate ex-officio : the income of the Grammar school heading. alone in r8go was £2,2oo: there are ro senior and ro Round Bush is half a mile east, and has four houses, junior Platt scholarships, to be held by boys in the erected by the late Mrs. Stuart, of Aldenham Abbey, school & the annual sum of £450 is applied to the in the year 1839, for four aged couples, each couple establishment & maintenance of three exhibitiom, receiving an annual allowance of £40. High Cross is to be awarded annually & to be tenable at any a quarter of a mile north-east. university or other place of education, or for fitting the holder for some profession: candidates for ad LETCHMORE HEATH is a village one mile south mission to the school must be 10 years of age & pass east. Boydon,'s Hill adjoins on one side and the Four an elementary examination; the number of boys is Want Ways on the other. The latter has a. Primitive now (r8go) about 140: Rev. John Kennedy M.A. late Methodist chapel, and at Letchmore Heath is an iron fellow of King's College, Cambridge, bead master mission room, licensed for divine service and seating Elementary (boys'), Aldenham, erected in 1864, for roo 100 persons; services are held here on sundays and children; average attendance, 54; Edwin James Finch, wednesdays. master Parish Sexton, Waltcr Benhett. Elementary (girls' & infants), Letchmore Heath, erected Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, in r878, for 8o girls & 70 infants; average attend Letchmore Heath.-Harry Jn. Wright, sub-postmaster. ance, "54 girls & 46 infants; ~'l:iss Catherine Sarah Letters arrive from Elstree R.S.O. at 7.30 a.m.; dis Chambers, mistress; Miss Amelia Sophia Baggs, patched at II a.m. ·& 5.30 p.m.; on sundays at 7.30 infants' mistress a.m. ; dispatched ·at m. 15 a.m. The nearest tele Both the Elementary schools are supported in part by graph office is at Radlett station a sum of £go a year each out of the endowment of Wall Boxes, near Caldecote Towers, cleared at 8.25 a.m. Richard Platt 1.40 & 7-55 p.m.; sundays 7·55 p.m.; Round Bush, Conveyance :-IIenry May to Watford every tuesday, near 'Volunteer,' , cleared at 5.50 p.1U. ; sundays, thursday . & satm:day ALDENHAM. tBelgrove John, farmer, Porter's Weedo'n William Thomal'!, commercial Letters through Watford except those model fa_rm . traveller, Kemp row, High cross marked thus * receive lett-ers Brown Dav1d, Old Red Lwn P.H White Ernest, Three Compasses P.H. through Elstree R.S.O. & marked llurnell James, builder, Round bmh Patchett's green thus ~ receive letters through tCaldecote Towers Ladies' Private Wnitley Charles, farmer, Delrow Bushey Heath. Marked thus t re- Bo~rding Sch?ol . (T_he Misses LETCH~IORE HEATH. ceive letters through St .A.lbans Gnffiths & Tullls, prmclpals) • Cole Henry, baker, High cross PRIVATE RESIDENTS. PRIVATE RESIDEN'rs. tConvalescent Hospital for Women & Carr Miss, Grove villa Children (Miss Emma Dun'n, Corderey Frederick, The Fortress Barnett Charles Edward, Edgeg-rove matron), Caldecote house Horwood Mrs Ellis Edward, Round Bush . *Cowan 'Valter, farm bailiff to Henry Kent Ernest Neild, Aldenham collage Gibbs Rev. Kenneth Francls M.A. Rucks Gibbs esq. J.P. Aldenham Lyon Jn. Radcliffe, Letchmore lodge Vicarage House farm Rudd Mrs. Heath cottage *Gibbs Henry Rucks J.P., F.S.A., *Dickins Elizabeth Catherine (Mrs.), Turner Rev. Samuel Hankinson :M.A. F._R_.G.S. ~ldenham house Battleaxes P.H. Aldenham wood (curate), Tregenna lodge !Gnffiths ~'hss, Caldecote towers Dickinson Samson, shoe maker, Round Wi]liams Gerald Walton, Piggott's Hayes John, The Lodge bush manor Holland Stephen Taprell, Otterspool Godman Richd. beer ret. Round bsh Wood R. W. D. *Hewitt Jos-eph, Rosenau villa, The *Grammar School (Rev John Kennerly Reservoir M.A. head master), Boydon's hill COMMERCIAL. *Kennedy Rev. John }.LA. headmast-er Gra'nge Julia (Mrs.), beer retailer & Aldenham Working Men's Club, Letc~l- Alde'nham Grammar school shopkeeper, Round bush more heath (Gerald Walton Wll- Larkin John, Delrow house, Delrow Green Herbert John, beer retailer, liams, hon. treasurer) tLeeds Mrs. Pasadena. High cross Barker William, beer retailer May John Self, Carn brea, Round bsh tGrifliths & Tullis (The Misses), Bur'nell Bros. b~drs. & carpenters *Mallinson M. D. The Reservoir ladies' private boarding \\iChool, Callin Henry, h1ggler *Moseley Ernald, Queensberry lodge Caldecote towers Cootc David, carter & carman *Nelson John, Orchard house Hedges James, farmer, Batlers green G-&rforth Jane (Miss), farmer Phi!lips Chas. Palmer, llerkeley cot Hedges Richard, farmer, Church frm Gower Henry, plumber, ·ward's lane Raalte Chas. Van, Aldenham abbey *Hooper George, beer retailer, The Halsey George, blacksmith Schlesinger Henry, Hill field Reservoir Holmes Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Rickards Lionel Kemprow *Hunt Wm. Fishery inn, The Reservr Keen John, baker Tullis Miss, Caldecote towers Jones Henry Samuel, Chequers inn Kendall Charles, Bricklayers' .Arms P.H Lines Edward, blacksmith & farrier, Leaper Charlotte (Mrs.), grocer & COMMERCIAL. Round bush pork butcher Bail Henry George, frmr. Pages farm Neve Edward, head gardener to Chas. May Henry, grocer & carrier *Beckett :Edwin, head gardener to Van Raalte esq Meaderson Charles, boot maker Henry Bucks Gibbs esq. J.P. The Richardson Thomas, head gardener Walsh Maria (Mrs.), Three Horse Gardens, Aldenham house ta Stephen Taprell Holland esq Shoes P.H Bennett Walter, stone mason Selby James, famer, Batlers green Wright Harry Jn. tailor, Post office GREAT AM WELL is a parish and village pleasantly is supposed to be a corruption of "Emma's Well," a. situated on the declivity of a. hill overlooking the Lee spring issning from the foot of the hill, where runs the valley, 2~ miles north from Hoddesdon, a mile and a half New River, which takes its rise at Chadwell spring, east-south-east from Ware station on the Great Eastern about two miles west, in Little .Amwell, uniting with a railway, 3 east-by-south from Hertford station, in the tributary stream n little below this spring. The church Eastern division of the county, Hertford hundred and of St. John the Baptist, standing on the side of the hi1l, is county court district, Ware petty sessional diVIsion and an ancient building of flint and brick in mixed styles, union, rural deanery of Ware and archdeaconry and dio- consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, and an embattled cese of St. Albans, containing within its boundaries parts western tower with low spire containing 3 bells: the of the towns of Hoddesdon and Ware. The name Amwell chancel retains its p_iscina, there is another in the south .