Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TITTENHANGER

TITTENHANGER, a hamlet in St. Peter parish, Herts; 3 miles ESE of St. Albans. Pop. in 1851, 485; in 1861, 620. Houses, 133. T. Park belonged to the Blounts, and passed to Earl Hardwicke. A seat of the abbots of St. Albans was here; and was given, by Henry VIII., to Sir T. Pope, the founder of Trinity college, Oxford.


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

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Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: St Albans St Peter AP/CP       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Tittenhanger

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