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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.
MUNDEN (Great), a parish in Ware district, Herts; 2 miles W by S of Braughing r. station, and 6½ N of Ware. It contains the hamlet of Munden-Furnival, and parts of the hamlets of Dane-End and Haultwick; and its post town is Ware. Acres, 3, 352. Real property, £5, 124. Pop. in 1851, 554; in 1861, 457. Houses, 98. The property is divided among a few. Rowne a nunnery was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by the Duke of Brittany; but went to extinction before the time of Henry VI. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £705.* Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is partly Norman, but mainly decorated English, with some interpolated windows of later English; went into a ruinous condition; was restored, throughout the body, in 1866; and has a tower in stilla dilapidated state. There is a parochial school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Great Munden CP/AP Ware RegD/PLU Hertfordshire AncC |
| Place names: | GREAT MUNDEN | MUNDEN | MUNDEN GREAT |
| Place: | Great Munden |
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