. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE their youth by affording them additional comforts in their old age beyond the parish allowance.' The trust fund now consists of ^[218 8/. consols, producing j^5 9/. yearly, which is administered for the benefit of the aged poor under the provisions of a scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 13 August 1897. The several sums of stock are held by the official trustees. GREAT HORMEAD Hormede (xi cent.). The parish of Great Hormead is a sparsely wooded district consisting for the most part of fields and m
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE their youth by affording them additional comforts in their old age beyond the parish allowance.' The trust fund now consists of ^[218 8/. consols, producing j^5 9/. yearly, which is administered for the benefit of the aged poor under the provisions of a scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 13 August 1897. The several sums of stock are held by the official trustees. GREAT HORMEAD Hormede (xi cent.). The parish of Great Hormead is a sparsely wooded district consisting for the most part of fields and meadows. It has an area of 1,968 acres, the pro- portion of arable land being about two-thirds.^ The parish has an elevation of from 300 ft. to 400 ft. The soil is mixed, the subsoil mainly clay and the chief crops are barley, wheat and beans. church runs south-westward as Worsted Lane and crosses the Cambridge Road, on the other side of which it is known as Stonecross Lane. A little to the north-west of the church is the manor-house, Great Hormead Bury, formerly the residence of the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Romer, , , , now of Mr. William H. Evans. It appears to have been a half-timbered house, possibly of the 17th. Cottage East op Vicarage, Great Hormead The River Quin flows through the parish at the western end, and parallel with the river and at a small distance from it is the main road from London to Cambridge. Grouped along either side of this road are the houses which form the hamlet of Hare Street. The village of Great Hormead itself is in a more isolated position. It lies some distance east of the main road, from which it is separated by the river. The greater part of the village clusters about a winding road leading north-east to Brent Pelham and west to Hare Street, whence after cutting the main road it leads due west to Buntingford. The church stands on a wooded hill-crest just off the road from Little Hormead and about a quarter of a mile south-west of the
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