DIR~CTORY •] . ALDENHAM. 19 is a parish and village, pleasantly seated church"Wardens, which is applied to maintaining four . In a valley on the Buckinghamshire border, 31 miles small cottages, called the poor's cottages} at Aldbury. {ram London, 3 east from 'l'ring, 4~ north-west Lrom A h.ospital for infectious diseases, under the control of Great Berkhamsted, and 10 east from Aylesbury, in the the Berkhamsted sanitary authority, arranged ta hold Western division of the county, in Dacorum hundred 16 patients, was built in 1871 for the inmates of .and petty sessional division, Berkhamsted union, St. BeJ'khamsted union. The Bridgewater monument on Albaus county court district, and in the rural deanery Aldbury Hill is a granite column nearly 200 feet high, -of Berkhamsted and archdeaconry and diocese of Sf, erected in the yea1\ 1832 to Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridge­ Albans. The station on the North Western rail- "Water, the great founder of inland navigation in this way and the Grand Junction canal are at Pendley, in country, in commemoration of the completion of the this parish, 8 mile and a half east from the town of Grand Junction canal in 1758-9. A memorial hall, seat­ Tring. The church of St. John the Baptist is a build- ing 200 people, and two almshouses were erected on the ling of stone and flint in the Early English style, in part Village Green, in 1891, in memory of the Rev. R. Mount­ oOf the 13th century, but dating chiefly from about the ford Wood M.A. rector here 1862-9°, by his widow and middle of the 15th century, and consists of chancel children. Stocks is the residence of T. Humphry Ward with north chapel, nave, .aisles, a mortuary -chapel esq. M.A. and stands in grounds 30 acres in extent. at the east enu of the south aisle, south pl>rch and Some of the books of th& well-known authoress, Mrs. an embattled western tower containing a clock and Humphry Ward, were "Written here. Earl Brownlow 3 bells. dated respectively 1634, 1055 llnd 1683: it P.C. is the lord of the manor of Aldburyand principal contains several ancient monuments to the Harcourt and landowner; Joseph Gront Williams esq. is lord of the Duncombe families: in the Verney chapel, which III manor of Pendler and a large landowner; Franklyn 6eparated from the aisle and nave by stone screens and Arden Crallan esq. of 25 Stonor road, West Kensington, was built by Sir Edmund Verney knt. in 1575. is a London W is also a landowner. The soil is chalk and remarkably fine tomb with recumbent effigies to Sir flint; subsoil, chalk. Th8 crops are wheat, turnips, Hobert Whittingham knt. killed at the battle of Tewkes- barley and oats. The area is 2,020 acres

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Fulks William, farmer, Stock's farm Glenister Eliza (Miss), postmistress Birch Charles Martin, The Bungalow. Ashby Albert, brick maker Hickman Henry, gamekeeper to J. G. Northfield Ashby John, farmer Williams esq Bloxam Frederick, The Wolds Berkhamsted Urban &; Rural Districts Keen Daniel, gardener to T. HumphTy Craufurd Henry Robert Gregan J.P. Infectious Diseases Hospital (James JWard esq Brightwood Brown M.B., C.M.Edin. medical Lines John, assistant overseer & clerk G-odman Mrs officer; John Starkiss, master &; to the Parish Council Maunder Miss Mrs. H. Starkiss, matron) Mead John, farmer, North£eld farm Rivers John, Hill view Bishop Harry Wall, farm bailiff to Mead Thomas James, farmer, Church RopeI' Tom, Northfield J. G. Williams esq & Northfield farms Ward Arnold, Stocks cottage Bradley Cha.rle& W. station master &; Munoey Thomas, baker & grocer Ward Thos. Humphry M.A. Stocks goods agent, Tring railway station Muncey William, cycle repairer Ward Mrs. Humphry, Stocks Brown Thomas, Greyhound inn Philpott James, gamekeeper to T. Wood Rev. Canon Henry 'l'hellusson Buckle George, Royal hotel & posting Humphry Waid esq M.A. (rector, rural dean &; surro­ house, Tring station Sear Charles, builder, ~arpenter, gate), Rectory Crosswell Fredk. shopkpr. & builder painter, decorator &c Wood Misses, Toms hill Darvill John, blacksmith Welling Elizabeth (Mrs.), Valiant Wood Ralph Wedgwood, Toms hill Dickens Samuel James, shopkeeper Trooper P.H DickinsonWm.Hy.horse dlr.Town farm Wright George, butcher ALDENHAM is a village and parish, extending to the dating from 1683 to 1889 and a small bell dated 1647: Middlesex border and near the river Colne, 2 miles west in the chancel are triple sedilia and a piscina and there from Radlett station on the main line of the are some remains of a carved oak screen, the fragments Midland railway.. 3 north-east from station of which were collected and Tefixed at the cost of H. H. on th~ main line of the London and N orth Western Gibbs esq. and traces of a rood-loft and its staircase: rallway, 6 south from St. Albans and Id from the roof of the nave is of {lak, carved and painted, and London, in the Mid division of the county, Cashio and dates from 148o: the font is a rectangular structure of Dacorum hundreds, Watford petty sessional division, Purbeck marble resting on a cylindrical stem and may be union and county court district, and in the rural deanery assigned to about 1250: the parish chest is carved out of Watford and archdeaconry and diocese of St. Albans. of a solid piece of oak 9 feet 8 inches in length; it has Water, obtained from deep wells in the chalk, is 17 massive hinges and is secured by 8 hasps, besides supplied by the CoIne Valley Water Co. The river CoIne locks and an iron bolt: there are two ancient helmets, forms part of the western boundary, and the Tykeswater and a series of brasses from r450, including in the stream, rising near Bushey Heath, flows through the chancel brasses with effigies to a civilian, his wife and eastern part of the parish. The church of St. John 8 children, c. 1450: a civilian with II children, c. 1520; the Baptist is a building of flint and stone, chiefly Lucas Goodyere, in shroud, ob. 1547; an inscription with of the Perpendicular period and consisting of chancel, 4 heraldic shields to Nicholas Chowne, gent. c. 1580; clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles, north porch and a another with raised letters, placed in 1889 by Viscount lofty embattled tower with shingled spire, and a turret Falkland to Sir Edward Carye kt. ob. 16r8, and Catherine at the north-east angle containing a clock and 8 bells, (Knevett) his wife, widow of Henry, 1st baron Paget HERTS. 2*