Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MEESDEN

MEESDEN, a parish in Royston district, Herts; adjacent to Essex, 6½ miles E by N of Buntingford r. station. Post town, Buntingford. Acres, 1,008. Real property, £1,104. Pop., 163. Houses, 36. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £250. * Patron, W. G. Whatman, Esq. The church is plain but good, and has a bell-turret.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Meesden CP/AP       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Meesden

Go to the linked place page for a location map, and for access to other historical writing about the place. Pages for linked administrative units may contain historical statistics and information on boundaries.