Bovingdon Hertfordshire Family History Guide
Bovingdon is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Hertfordshire, created in 1834 from a chapelry in Hemel Hempstead Ancient Parish.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Lawrence
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1674
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Latimer, Buckinghamshire
- Hemel Hempstead
- Sarratt
- Northchurch
- Boxmoor
- Chesham, Buckinghamshire
- Flaunden
- Chipperfield
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BOVINGDON, a parish in Hemel-Hempstead district, Herts; on the verge of the county, near the Northwestern railway and the Grand Junction canal, 2½ miles SW of Boxmoor r. station, and 3¼ SSE of Berkhampstead. It has a post-office under Hemel-Hempstead. Acres, 3,958. Real property, £6,087. Pop., 1,155. Houses, 241. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, not reported. Patron, the Hon. G. D. Ryder. The church is good; and there are a chapel-of-ease, two Independent chapels, a Wesleyan chapel, three industrial schools, and charities £14.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BOVINGDON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Hemel-Hempstead, hundred of Dacorum, county of Hertford, 4 miles (S. W.) from Hemel-Hempstead; containing 1072 inhabitants. This chapelry comprises 3513 acres, of which 110 are common or waste; it contains the villages of Felden and Bourn-End, and is situated near the Grand Junction canal, and the London and Birmingham railway. Straw-platting is extensively carried on by the women and children. The living is a perpetual curacy, constituted in 1834, and endowed with the vicarial tithes; also by the governors of Queen Anne’s Bounty; and by the patron, the Hon. Granville D. Ryder. The impropriate tithes belong to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s, and have been commuted for £710; the vicarial have been commuted for £190, and there are 11 acres of glebe. The chapel, dedicated to St. Lawrence, and formerly only a chapel of ease, is a very ancient edifice, exhibiting marks of Anglo-Saxon origin. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans in the village, and for Independents in Box Lane.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Hertfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Hemel Hempstead
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon (Hitchin Division)
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Rochester, Pre-1845 – Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – Berkhampstead, Post-1844 – St Albans
- Poor Law Union: Hemel Hampstead
- Hundred: Dacorum
- Province: Canterbury