. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE after crossing Ermine Street, runs north-west to join the Great North Road at Baldock. At the junction of these two roads is situated the town of Bunting- ford, which extends into the four parishes of Layston, Throcking, Aspenden and Wyddial. The older settlement in the parish lay near St. Bartholomew's Church, which stands about half a mile east of Ermine Street alone in the fields,' almost hidden by the thick trees which surround it. Records of Buntingford are found in the early I 3 th century.^ It
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE after crossing Ermine Street, runs north-west to join the Great North Road at Baldock. At the junction of these two roads is situated the town of Bunting- ford, which extends into the four parishes of Layston, Throcking, Aspenden and Wyddial. The older settlement in the parish lay near St. Bartholomew's Church, which stands about half a mile east of Ermine Street alone in the fields,' almost hidden by the thick trees which surround it. Records of Buntingford are found in the early I 3 th century.^ It was described as a hamlet in I 288.' In 1 292 there was a chapel there, which stood where the present chapel of St. Peter stands, on the west side of Ermine Street, north of the point where it crosses the river. The rector of Aspenden is said to have built an oratory near the king's highway about 1333. Five years later there was complaint that this was an inconvenience to travellers who passed through the town on foot in winter time, and the oratory was. Layston Chvrch from the South-east taken into the king's hands. It was found by inquisi- tion, however, that it was to the benefit of the town.* Buntingford must have been growing rapidly at this time, and as a centre for trade it had become more important than the neighbouring villages. From 1252a market had been held every Friday at New Chipping,' which lies on Ermine Street, only half a mile north of Buntingford. This market was attached to the manor of Pope's Hall in Buckland (). The manor included lands in Buntingford,^** and in 1360 the lord of the manor, Elizabeth de Burgh, receired licence to transfer her market to the king's highway in Buntingford, to be held on Friday in the main road by the chapel of St. John and in the two roadi which crossed that road east and west. She received also the grant of a fair to be held in the same place every year on the day and morrow of the Invention of the Holy Cross.'^ In 1367 L
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