MUNDEN (Great), a parish in Ware district, Herts; 2 miles W by S of Braughing r. station, and 6 ½ N of Ware. It contains the hamlet of Munden-Furnival, and parts of the hamlets of Dane-End and Haultwick; and its post-town is Ware. Acres, 3,352. Real property, £5,124. Pop. in 1851, 554; in 1861, 457. Houses, 98. The property is divided among a few. Rownea nunnery was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by the Duke of Brittany; but went to extinction before the time of Henry VI. The. living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £705. Patron, King’s College, Cambridge. The church is partly Norman, but mainly decorated English, with some interpolated windows of later English; went into a ruinous condition; was restored, throughout the body, in 1866; and has a tower in still a dilapidated state. There is a parochial school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
