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Almshouses

  • A Brief Introduction to Hertfordshire's Almshouses
    A Brief Introduction to Hertfordshire's Almshouses
    The scope of this survey, started in March 2016, is to list, locate (and hopefully photograph) the almshouses (or sites ...
  • A Discussion about Sources
    A Discussion about Sources
    There are many sources of information, all with their own benefits and disadvantages. They need to be regarded as complementary. ...
  • Aldbury. Church Houses
    Aldbury. Church Houses
    ‘There are no documents extant showing the origin of this charity; but there were formerly certain tenements called Church Houses ...
  • Aldbury. Glad's Cottage and Town Houses
    Aldbury. Glad's Cottage and Town Houses
    It would be nice to know how Glad’s Cottage got its name. However, it is really one of three buildings. ...
  • Aldbury. Memorial Cottages
    Aldbury. Memorial Cottages
    The building was erected in memory of Richard Mountford Wood M.A., late rector of the parish by his widow and ...
  • Aldenham. Richard Platt
    Aldenham. Richard Platt
    ‘Crased in body but in perfect memory’ was how Richard Platt described himself when he wrote his will. A brewer ...
  • Aldenham. Round Bush
    Aldenham. Round Bush
    Even today Round Bush is a small community about half a mile east of Aldenham. Cussans recorded that four neat, ...
  • Ardeley. Chauncy or Reedings
    Ardeley. Chauncy or Reedings
    Henry Chauncy Henry Chauncy was the renowned historian of Hertfordshire, but it was his father, also named Henry, who left the ...
  • Ashwell. Moss Cottage Homes
    Ashwell. Moss Cottage Homes
    George Moss dedicated these almshouses to the memory of his mother, Frances, who had died in 1838, 66 years previously, ...
  • Ashwell. Parish
    Ashwell. Parish
    Alms Lane in Ashwell was not always known by that name; an 1877 map shows it was formerly Pickings Lane. ...
  • Aston. John Boteler
    Aston. John Boteler
    John Boteler gave a messuage at the Aston church gate, an almshouse and some other land to John Kent in ...
  • Baldock. John Wynne
    Baldock. John Wynne
    Money and shady dealings often go hand in hand. John Wynne, a citizen of London and a member of the ...
  • Baldock. Roe
    Baldock. Roe
    In January 1838 Henricus Octavus Roe, a maltster in High Street, attended a local meeting as he wanted to erect ...
  • Barkway. Stallibrass
    Barkway. Stallibrass
    You can’t always believe what’s written in stone. The dedication stone states these almshouses were erected by the great-grand-daughters of ...
  • Barley. Andrew Willett
    Barley. Andrew Willett
    ‘For the use of the poor’ is an inexact description. It usually means that the property would be let, with ...
  • Barley. Town House
    Barley. Town House
    This is one of the oldest Town Houses in the country, built around 1530 (probably 1526). Henry VIII was still ...
  • Barnet. Lancelot Hasluck
    Barnet. Lancelot Hasluck
    When he was vice-chairman of Jesus Hospital, Lancelot Hasluck realised there was still a great need for almshouse provision. That ...
  • Bayford. Knighton
    Bayford. Knighton
    There is a report that Sir George Knighton had leanings towards ‘the old faith’ of Roman Catholicism, which could be ...
  • Bengeo. Deedes Memorial
    Bengeo. Deedes Memorial
    Charles Deedes, the rector of Bengeo for 28 years (1848 – 1876), would have overseen the building of the new ...
  • Bengeo. The Almshouses
    Bengeo. The Almshouses
    We may need to go back to Elizabethan times for the foundation of these almshouses. Victoria County History simply says ...
  • Bentley Heath. Earl of Strafford
    Bentley Heath. Earl of Strafford
    It seems that George Byng, 2nd Earl Strafford, had some involvement in two almshouses. He purchased the site of the ...
  • Berkhamsted. John Sayer
    Berkhamsted. John Sayer
    One look at this building and you immediately recognise it as an almshouse. It’s a strange mixture of plain and ...
  • Berkhamsted. Parish
    Berkhamsted. Parish
    A cottage in the churchyard and another at Gossams End were bought by the parish 1703 for the habitation of ...
  • Bishops Stortford. King's Cottages
    Bishops Stortford. King's Cottages
    Edward VII passed along South Street on the day the almshouse foundations were laid, and allowed them to be named ...
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