. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. HERTFORD HUNDRED now remains except some old garden walls, which may be old inclosure walls, and a fragment of a moat which may have surrounded the monastery. As early as 1183 Lucius III exempted the site from payment of The nunnery, or part of it, appears to have been destroyed by fire between the granting of a charter by Henry III in 1240 and 1315, when the nuns stated in a petition to the king that the charter had been The fire must have taken place about 1290, in which year the nuns sought help from the kin
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. HERTFORD HUNDRED now remains except some old garden walls, which may be old inclosure walls, and a fragment of a moat which may have surrounded the monastery. As early as 1183 Lucius III exempted the site from payment of The nunnery, or part of it, appears to have been destroyed by fire between the granting of a charter by Henry III in 1240 and 1315, when the nuns stated in a petition to the king that the charter had been The fire must have taken place about 1290, in which year the nuns sought help from the king because they were impoverished by a In 1312 indulgence was granted for the fabric of the church of the house of the nuns of Cheshunt for their dormicory and other places. '* The last remains of the nunnery were taken down early in the 19th ; Eastward of Turnford is Hell Wood, which contains a good example of a homestead moat inclosing two islands. Flamstead End is a hamlet north of Churchgate, and is approached from the Great North Road by Brookfield Lane, which skirts the reservoir formed by the New River Water Company. The hamlet is built at the meeting of four roads. There are here some nursery grounds, cottages and one or two inns, including the Plough Inn, a 17th-century timber-framed house, now plastered, with a projecting upper story on the south side. In Church Lane near to the Great North Road is a row of 17th-century cottages. This lane continues under the name of Andrews Lane, probably so called from the manor of Andrews, of which the Great House is the manor-house, to Burton Grange, the residence of Mrs. Mason, to which is attached a small park. GofF's Oak, formed into a district chapelry in 1871 with the church of St. James built in 1861, is a hamlet on the west side of the parish which communicates with the village of Cheshunt by GofFs Lane. The early tradition as to this name being taken from a certain Sir Theodore Godfrey, a follower of Wil
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