In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stanstead Abbots like this:
STANSTEAD-ABBOTS, a village and a parish in Ware district, Herts. The village stands on the river Lea and on the Hertford railway, at St. Margarets r. station, 2½ miles SSE of Ware; was a borough at Domesday; and has a post-office under Ware, and a literary institute. The parish comprises 2,594 acres. ...
Real property, £6,340. Pop. 980. Houses, 202. The manor belonged to Waltham abbey; and passed to the Baeshes and others. Stansteadbury is the seat of Capt. E. S. Trower. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £134.* Patron, the Rev. J. W. Thomas. The church was built in 1578, and is good. There are an Independent chapel, a free grammar-school, a national school and six alms houses.
Stanstead Abbots through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stanstead Abbots in East Hertfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2006
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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