Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Ayot St Lawrence, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Ayot St Lawrence in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
LAMER PARK	a place	Imperial

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ayot St Lawrence like this:

AYOTT-ST. LAWRENCE, or Ayott-Magna, a parish in Hatfield district, Herts; near the river Maran, 2¾ miles WNW of Welwyn r. station. Post Town, Welwyn. Acres, 747. Real property, £1,568. Pop., 122. Houses, 23. The property is not much divided. The manor belonged anciently to King Harold; and belongs now to the Lydes of Ayott Park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £180.* Patron, Lionel Lyde, Esq. The church was rebuilt, in 1778, at the expense of Sir Lionel Lyde, in the G...

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recian style, after a design by Revett. The previous church still stands as a ruin, and contains some curious monuments.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Ayot St Lawrence by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

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Whitwell	0	3
Lemsford	0	2
Welwyn	6	2
Sandridge	1	2
Broadwater	0	2
Langley	0	1
Datchworth	0	2
Harpenden	2	2
Tewin	0	2
Shephall	0	2
Kings Walden	0	2
Hatfield	14	2
Stevenage	8	2