Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NETTLEDEN

NETTLEDEN, a chapelry in Pitstone parish, Bucks; contiguous to Herts, 2½ miles N E of Berkhampstead r.station. It contains part of the hamlet of Friesden; and its post town is Hemel Hempstead. Acres, 420. Real property, £1, 420. Pop., 124. Houses, 23. The property belongs to Earl Brownlow. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £58. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church was built in 1470; waspartly rebuilt by the late Duke of Bridgewater; and contains a monumental marble tablet to R. Clark, Esq.


(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: Nettleden Hmlt/CP/Ch       Pitstone CP/AP       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place: Nettleden

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