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Buntingford in Hertford County England History and GeographyBUNTINGFORD, a chapelry, (formerly a market town), in the parishes of ASPEDEN, LAYSTON, THROCKING, and WYDDIHALL, with which its population is returned, and in the hundred of EDWINSTREE, county of HERTFORD, 12 miles (N.N.E.) from Hertford, and 31 (N.) from London. This place takes its name from a ford on the river Rib, near which a blacksmith, named Bunt, or Bunting, had a forge. The town is pleasantly situated on a gentle ascent between two hills, and consists of one street, half a mile in length: the houses are, in general, well built, and of respectable appearance, and the inhabitants are amply supplied with water. The trade is principally in leather and malt: the market, granted by Henry VIII., has been discontinued: the fairs, formerly on the 29th of June and the 30th of November, each for four days, are now irregularly held. The county magistrates hold petty sessions for the division at the George Inn, where also a septennial court leet is held for the hundred. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, endowed with a portion of the tithes of Layston, and in the patronage of the Vicar of that parish. The chapel, dedicated to St. Peter, is a commodious brick building, erected by subscription; and, from its convenient situation, is appropriated to the general use of the parishioners of Layston, the parish church, half a mile distant, being resorted to only for the solemnization of marriages. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends and Independents. The free grammar school was founded through the exertions of the Rev. Alexander Strange, vicar of Layston, and endowed, in 1630, by Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman, with lands producing £10. 10. per annum; the endowment was augmented with a moiety of the produce of lands left by Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, to Christ's College, Cambridge, the other being applied to the endowment in that college of four scholarships, of £12 per annum each, for boys on this foundation; or in default of such, for the most deserving in the university, reserving one to Hitchen. A charity school for forty girls is supported by subscription. Eight almshouses, for four aged men and four aged women, were founded in 1668, and endowed with the rent of lands in Lincolnshire, by Bishop Ward; but these are now occupied by paupers of the parish: the bishop also gave £600 to purchase lands, the rental of which is applied to the apprenticing of children: he was a native of this town, and received the rudiments of his education in the grammar school. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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