. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE The subsoil of the parish is chalk. Baldock station, on the Cambridge branch of the Great Northern railway, is in the extreme north of the parish. Part of the hamlet of Clothall End is included in the north-east of the parish. Elmwood Manor is a large house surrounded by a park, situated to the south of that end of the town known as Pembroke End, and is the residence of the lord of the manor of Baldock. At the time of the Domesday Survey BOROUGH BALDOCK was a part of Weston () and consequently the
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE The subsoil of the parish is chalk. Baldock station, on the Cambridge branch of the Great Northern railway, is in the extreme north of the parish. Part of the hamlet of Clothall End is included in the north-east of the parish. Elmwood Manor is a large house surrounded by a park, situated to the south of that end of the town known as Pembroke End, and is the residence of the lord of the manor of Baldock. At the time of the Domesday Survey BOROUGH BALDOCK was a part of Weston () and consequently then belonged to William de A little before the middle of the 12th century Gilbert de Clare Earl of Pembroke, who died in , granted 10 librates of land from road from Stevenage This would indicate that the ordinary route here from south to north was along the Stevenage road through the High Street, Baldock, at the northern end of which it turned almost at 1 right angle down what is now White Horse Street and so into the Roman road. The borough was established at the angle formed by the High Street and White Horse Street, the church of St. Mary being built on the west side of the angle and the market- place apparently extending originally up both streets. Here also the fairs were held. Besides the two principal streets High Street and White Horse Street, Church Street, Norton Street, and Hitchin Street6 probably mark mediaeval lines. There are a few interesting houses in these Baldock Village his manor of Weston to the Knights Templars with ample liberties.' These 10 librates became the parish of Baldock, and here the Templars, probably about 1199 when they received a grant of market and fair (see below),5 ' built a certain borough which is called Baldock.' This was a period for the founding and developing of towns with primitive borough rights, and Baldock, being on one of the principal lines of traffic to the north, formed a very eligible site for a market tow
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