In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Leavsden like this:
LEAVESDEN, a hamlet in Watford parish, and a chapelry partly also in St. Stephen parish, Herts. The hamlet lies between the Northwestern railway and the Watford and St. Albans railway, 2½ miles N of Watford. The chapelry was constituted in 1853. Post town, Watford. Pop., 756. Houses, 164. Pop. of the Watford section, 538. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £116. * Patron, the Vicar of Watford. The church is modern.
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Leavsden through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Leavsden, in Watford and Hertfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23807
Date accessed: 18th April 2024
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