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Flamstead in Hertford County England History and GeographyFLAMSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of DACORUM, county of HERTFORD, 2¾ miles (N.W.) from Redbourn, containing 1392 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of LincoIn, endowed with £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of University College, Oxford, to whom the rectory, rated in the king's books at £41. 6. 8., was devised by Robert Gunsley, in 1618, on condition that, besides paying a stipend to the curate, they should maintain four scholars at a grammar school, affording them a stipulated allowance yearly after their removal to college, the selection to be made equally from the grammar schools of Rochester and Maidstone, of scholars born in the county of Kent. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard. The village, not far from which is the Roman Watling-street, stands upon the summit of a high ridge of land which rises abruptly from the south-western side of the valley through which the river Ver runs, and was in ancient times called Verlam-stedt, in allusion to its situation near that river. There is a small sum for the education of children. An almshouse for two widowers and two widows was founded in 1669, by Thomas Saunders, Esq., who endowed them with a rent-charge of £5. A priory, dedicated to St. Giles, is stated by Leland to have been founded at Woodchurch, in this neighbourhood, by Roger de Tony, for a prioress and nuns, the demesnes of which, at the dissolution of religious houses, lapsed to the crown, and were granted by Henry VIII. to Sir Richard Page, Knt., to whose mansion Edward VI., in his infancy, being in an infirm state of health, was sent for the benefit of a salubrious air. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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