HERTINGFORDBURY, a village and a parish in the district and county of Hertford. The village stands between the rivers Maran and Lea, adjacent to the Hertford and Dunstable railway, 2 miles WSW of Hertford; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Hertford. The parish contains also the hamlets of EastEnd, Stains-Green, Cole-Green, Birch-Green, and LettyGreen. Acres, 2, 586. Real property, £4, 168. Pop., 799. Houses, 168. The property is divided among a few. The manor was given, at the Conquest, to Philip de Valoines; passed to the Duchy of Lancaster; and, with Panshanger House, belongs now to Earl Cowper. An oak, nearly 20 feet in girth at 5 feet from the ground, is in Panshanger park. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Letty-Green, in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £500. * Patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. The church is ancient; was thoroughly repaired in 1846; consists of nave, N aisle, S porch, and chancel, with tower and spire; and contains some beautiful monuments of the Cowpers. There are a chapel of ease at Letty-Green, an endowed school, and a charity for apprenticing..

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))