Bygrave Hertfordshire Family History Guide
Bygrave is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hertfordshire.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1765
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1614
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BYGRAVE, a parish in Hitchin district, Herts; on the Hitchin and Royston railway, near Icknield-street and Metley Hill, 2¼ miles NE of Baldock. Post Town, Baldock. Acres, 1,809. Real property, £2,392. Pop., 195. Houses, 40. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £377. Patron, the Marquis of Salisbury. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BYGRAVE, a parish, in the union of Hitchin, hundred of Odsey, county of Hertford, 2 miles (N. E. by N.) from Baldock; containing 154 inhabitants. It comprises by computation 1620 acres, about 100 of which are pasture. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £17. 9. 7.; net income, £377; patron, the Marquess of Salisbury.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Hertfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Hitchin
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon (Hitchin Division)
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Rochester, Pre-1845 – Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Baldock
- Poor Law Union: Hitchin
- Hundred: Odsey
- Province: Canterbury