HertfordshireTompkins, Herbert W. (Herbert Winckworth)
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Hertfordshire
Tompkins, Herbert W. (Herbert Winckworth)
Hertfordshire (England) -- Guidebooks
BULBOURNE, river. (See Introduction.)
_Bull's Green_ is 21/4 miles N.E. from Welwyn Station, G.N.R.
_Bull's Mill_ is 21/2 miles N. from Hertford.
BUNTINGFORD, a small town on the river Rib, on the Royston-Cambridge
Road, consists chiefly of the long High Street and of a few small
by-ways, E. by the river side, and W. on the roads to Aspenden and
Cottered. Standing across the High Street is the cruciform church of St.
Peter, built in 1614-26 as a chapel-of-ease to Layston (_q.v._). An old
brass tablet still preserved represents the holding of a Divine service
in the church before completion. There is also a portrait of Seth Ward
(see Aspenden); the almshouses a few yards W. were founded by him in
1684. "This town," wrote Chauncy, "is of small antiquity, for there is
no mention of it in Domesdei Book, neither can I find anything of it
before Anno. 21. Edwd. III., when that King did grant one Market every
Week, and one Fair every Year in Buntingford, to Elizabeth de Burgo and
her Heirs, reserving the Yearly Rent of 6d." At the N. end of High
Street is the old pound. _Corney Bury_ (1/2 mile N.) is a fine old manor
house. Little of historic importance is to be gleaned in the town, but a
ramble from end to end is interesting by reason of the many quaint inns
and cottages, of all ages and styles, which meet the eye at every turn.
_Burnham Green_ is a hamlet 11/4 mile N.E. from Welwyn Station, G.N.R.
_Bury Green_ (11/2 mile W. from Cheshunt Station, G.E.R.) is a small
hamlet near Theobald's Park; also
_Bury Green_, a hamlet 21/2 miles W. from Bishop's Stortford.
_Bury Hill and Bury Mill._ (See Hemel Hempstead.)
_Bury Stede._ (See Hexton.)
_Bush Barrow_ is 11/4 mile N. from Wallington, on Metley Hill, midway
between the village and the Icknield Way.
BUSHEY is a large village, now practically the S.E. suburb of Watford.
The station (L.&N.W.R.) is in the hollow between the village itself and
High Street, Watford; cyclists must be careful of the descent towards
that town. Near the centre of the village is a small green and pond, and
here stands the partly Dec. church of St. James, rebuilt in 1871 by Sir
Gilbert Scott. The E.E. window, triple lancet, is to the memory of
Edwards Marjoribanks of the Hall (d. 1879) and his wife. Silas Titus,
whose name is remembered for his supposed authorship of the notorious
pamphlet _Killing noe Murder_, was born at Bushey and buried in this
church; there is a headstone to his daughter in the graveyard.
BUSHEY HEATH (1 mile S.E. from the above) is on the Middlesex border. It
is now an ecclesiastical district, formed in 1889; the church, an E.E.
brick structure, dates from 1838; the porches were added in 1882. The
district is very healthy.
_Bushey, Little_, is E. from Bushey Heath, which it almost joins.
_Bushey Mill_ is on the river Colne, 3/4 mile N.E. from Watford Junction.
_Butchery Green._ (See Hertford.)
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