A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HORMEAD (GREAT), a village and a parish in Royston district, Herts. The village stands near the river Quin, 2¾ miles E of Buntingford r. station. The parish contains also part of Hare-Street village, which has a post office under Buntingford. Acres, 2, 160. Real property, £3, 145. Pop., 660. Houses, 130. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged to Edgar Atheling, and passed to the De Veres. Hormead Bury is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £121. * Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is old but good. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £21.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Great Hormead AP/CP Hormead CP Hertfordshire AncC |
| Place names: | GREAT HORMEAD | HORMEAD | HORMEAD GREAT |
| Place: | Great Hormead |
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