Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LEVERSTOCK-GREEN

LEVERSTOCK-GREEN, a chapelry in St. Michael, Abbots-Langley, and Hemel-Hempstead parishes, Herts; near the river Vei., 4 miles NW of St. Albans r. station. It was constituted in 1850; and it has a post office under Hemel-Hempstead. Pop. in 1861,1,247. Houses, 254. Pop. of the St. Michael portion, 343; of the AbbotsLangley portion, 554. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £50. Patron, the Earl of Verulam. The church was built in 1849.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hemel Hempstead AP/CP       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Leverstock Green

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