Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BUNTINGFORD

BUNTINGFORD, a village, a chapelry, and a subdistrict, in Royston district, Herts. The village stands on the river Rib, at the terminus of a branch railway deflecting from the London and Hertford line at St. Margaret's, and is 13 miles, by road, N by E of Hertford. It is a decayed old town; consists chiefly of one street; is a seat of petty sessions, and a polling-place; and has a head post office,‡ a railway station, three places of worship, a grammar school, almshouses, and a workhouse. The grammar school and the almshouses were founded, in the 17th century, by Bishop Seth Ward, who was a native; and have respectively £13 and £99 from endowment; and the former sends four scholars to Christ's College, Cambridge. The workhouse was built at a cost of £2,658. A weekly market is held on Monday; and fairs on 29 June and 30 Nov. The chapelry includes the village; and is in the four parishes of Layston, Aspeden Throcking, and Wyddiall. Pop., 581. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Layston, in the diocese of Rochester.-The subdistrict contains fifteen parishes, and two extra-parochial tracts. Acres, 28,351. Pop., 6,389. Houses, 1,355.


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

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Feature Description: "a village, a chapelry, and a subdistrict"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Buntingford

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