162 KINGH WALDBN. HERTFORDSHIRE. [KIL'("jY'S *Oliver Arch. Thomas, agricultural BREACHWOOD. Humphrey William, brick maker, see machinist, Wandon End S b'd RHG (B t' t) Hill &; Humphrey Piggott John, blacksmith, Cock's Gm tern rI ge ev. y. eo. ap IS Jackson George, farmer, Heath farm tShea:f .Alb6rl, farmer, Law hall, COMMERCIAL. Parkins Herbert, shopkeeper Bendish Batchelor Frederick, farm bailiff to IPeters Henry, boot maker Simkins Anne (U\1rs.), Crown P.H. Thomas Batchelor esq. Baileys frm Pryor William Wren, apiarist &; Ley green Chambers James, news agent hardware dealer, Post office ;Squires Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, .Chambers John, grocer Swain George, beer retailer Ley green Chivas Robert, Red Lion P.H Taylor William James, farmer, Med· :Swain Bernard George, The Fox Hammett Francis, ~rocer &; plait dlr low house &; Hill farm P.H. Darley hall Hertfordshire & Essex Public House I *Tompkins Joseph, farmer, Wandon 'Thrussel Thos. fa.rmer, Austage end Trust Co. Limited (John H. Hex, End farm &; tBrownings farm .Titmus Agnes (Mrs.), farmer, sec.), Queen's ~ead P.H. Breach- tTompkins Joseph Norfolk, farm Leggatt's farm wood Green bailiff to Joseph Tompkins esq. ·.Tooley James Francis, jun. farmer, Hill &; Humphrey, brick makers Brownings farm Lodge farm Hill Frederick, grocer I Whitmore John, farmer Hill Harry, boot maker Wilson S. &; Son, wheelwrights Hilton Arth. Wm. farmer,Bendish grn Wren D. wheelwright. XNEBWORTH is a parish and village, with a station interest of £100, £2£ per Cent. Oonsols, left by on the main line of the Great Northern railway, one William Johnson in 1811, is distributed on the 30th mile east from the village, and is 8 miles north-west from January yearly, ,among eight poor housekeepers of this Hertford, 8 south from Hitchin, 3! south from Stevenage, parish. Here is a Oottage Home for seven boys in con­ and 27 from London; the parish is in the Northern division nection with the Church of England Waifs and Strays of the county, Broadwater hundred, 8tJeJvJenage petty Society. Knebworth House, the property of the Earl sessional division, RiOOhin union and county e<lurt district, of Lytton, pleasantly seated on a lofty eminence, was and in t,he rural deanery of Welwyn and 3I1"chdeaconry and originally built in 1563; the greater part of this house diocese of St. Albans. Under the provisions of the was pulled down in IBIl, and the present pseudo­ "Divided Parishes Act, 1882," Swangley's farm and cot- Gothic mansion erected. The chief attractions of Kneb­ tage have been transferred from this parish to Datch- worth are its extensive gardens and noble deer park of worth, and under the "Oounty of lHertford (Letch- 156 acres, which is finely wooded. The west lodge is worth &c.) Confirmation Order, 1908" of the Local built of the materials of the old house and is intended Government Boara, a portion of Letchworth paris·h, to recall the tower and entrance .gate destroyed in known as Letchworth Detached, has been transferred 18n. In 1<883 the mansion was enlarged 'by the addi­ to and now forms part of the parish of Knebworth. tion of an upper story and domestic offices, and a new The church of St. Mary the Virgin is an ancient build- drive one mile in length was made in the direction of ing of flint and brick, chiefly of Early English charac- Stevenage; three new lodges were also :built and the ter, the nave and chancel arch ,being Norman; it con- old lodge in .the centre of the grannds restored: new sists of chancel with north chapel, nave, south porch water works have been erected on the estate, and land and an embattled western tower with octagonal turret round the station is being taken up rapidly for building and a low spire and containing ,8 bells: the chancel purposes. In the park, some little distance north-east retains a piscina and is separated from the north or of the church,. is a large mausoleum, erected by Mrs. Lytton chapel by iron palisading; over the communion Bulwer-Lytton in 1817, with memorial inscriptions on table is a painting of "The Lord's Supper:" there is a the exterior. Golf links, covering about 140 acres, memorial window to Edward Rowland John Lytton, were laid out in 1908, and a club house built on the aged six years, d. July, 1871, and Henry and Meredith grounds. The Earl of Lytton is lord of the manor and Edward Lytton, aged two years, d. March, 1874, placed principal landowner. The soil is clay, gravel and flint; by their mother, Edith, Countess of Lytton, C.l. be- subsoil, various. The chief crops are wheat, barley and sides otlier stained windows: the church contains some turnips. The area is 2,673 acres of land and 5 of fine old oak pews, including the family pew belonging water; rateable value, £9,862; the population in 1901 to the Earl of Lytton, and an octagonal pulpit, the was 522. panels of which are beautifully carved and bear the Ilroadwater hamlet is one mile north-east, at tbp date of 1567: in the Lytton chapel are numerous junction of the roads from Hatfield and Hertford to monuments and a brass to members of the Lytton Stevenage; Winter Green, I mile west; Rustling End. family, dating from 1582 to 1732, and a fine brass to li north-west. Simon Bache, clerk, treasurer of the household to Hen. V. and canon of St. Paul's, ob. 1414, with effigy in rich Parish Clerk, Francis Ware. cope: there is another brass·.Mwith effigy to Rowland(T) Pos, t MO&;.. T..;..0 SB &; '.A & I . &; Te1ephonlC . E . L ytton esq. 0b . 1582, and hIS WIves argaret ate D. Office, Knebworth station.-George Thomas Parker, and Anne (Carleton), and three children. and a bras~ sub-postmaster. Letters thrangh Stevenage arrive at inscription to John Hotoft, treasurer of the household 7 &; 11.20 a.m. &; 3.15 p.m.; dispatched at 8,45 &; to Hen. VI. and wife, c. 1430, effigies and shields losi: . th hI' bl k bl t bl t 'th b 11.15 a.m. &; 4 & 7·3° p.m.; sundays, arrive at 8 ID e c ance IS a ac mar e a e, WI rass a.m.; dispatched at 10.20 a.m. Parcel post arrives &; crucifix and an inscription to Charles Buchanan Pearson M.A. prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral and rector of this is dispatched same time as mails, sundays excepted parish 1838-74, d. 7 Jan. 1881 : there are 250 sittings. The Post Office, Knebworth.-Mrs. Margaret F. Knight, sub- local register dates from the year 1606, but the earlier postmistress. Letters through Stevenage arrive at register of Knebworth, dating from the year 1599, is 7.20 &; 10·45 a.m. &; 7·5 p.m.; dispatched at JI·5° and has been for many years in the theological library am. &; 7. 10 p.m.; sundays, arrive 7.30 a.m.; dis- of the late Dr. Williams, Gordon square, London WC patched II a.m. Knebworth Station, I! miles dis- (Rev. F. H. Jones RA. librarian). The living is a rec- tant, is the nearest mouey order &; telE'graph office tory, net yearly value £371, with residence and 68 acres Wall Letter Box, Railway station, cleared at 7.45 &; of glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Lytton, and held n.15 a.m. &; 3 &; 7.15 p.m.; sundays, 10.30 a.m since 1907 by the Rev. Gildart Arthur J ackson M.A. of Police Station, Henry Chappell' constable St. Peter's College, Cambrid'ge. The Congregational chapel, built in 1887, seats about 200. Five alms- Railway Station, John Thomas Cross, station mal'lter houses, on the Codicote road, were erected by Mrs. Public Elementa:-y School (mixed), built, with resi- Elizabeth Barbara Bulwer Lytton in 1836 for old and dence, by the 1St Lord Lytton, in 1870. &; enlarged in deserving people of the parish; they are endowed, but 1893, for ISO children; average attendance, 121; Miss are supported by the Earl of Lytton. The annual E. E. Avery, mistress; Miss Phyllis Day, infants' mist Marked * should be addressed Kneb- I *Green William, Rose villa ,Lytton Dowager Countess of C.I., worth Station. Hardy Mrs. Woodcot V.A. Homewood *Horlges Herbert Busy, Glenaveril I *Maitland AIex. Philip M. Donabate PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hughes Rupert St. John, Talbragar *Masson Miss, Warner cottage Blyth Henry David, Lytton lodge (let- *Ibbottson Alfred *Milne John, Caxton villa ters via Welwyn) Jackson Rev. Gildart Arthur M.A. Paterson John, Parkwood Buchanan Wm. Alpx. The Cottage (rector), The Rectory *Phillips Wm. Hy. Roundwood villa *Claridge J ames, Bungalow *James John Renwick Mrs. Goldingtons *Clarke Frederick *Jones Nelson *Sedcole Jas. Weaver, Ohillingley viI Coleman Thurman, The Retreat Lytton The Earl of, Knebworth ha.; *Seymour-Mills Harold, St. Helens *Cuff J ames William, Dale villa &; 11 Nth. Audley st W; &; National" *Smith Mrs. Calladale Fairey Percy Frederick Eastview Garrick &; Carlton Clubs, London I.