Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FLAUNDEN

FLAUNDEN, a parish in Hemel-Hempstead district, Herts; on the river Chess, at the boundary with Bucks, 4 miles ENE of Amersham, and 5 NW of Rickmansworth r. station. It has a post office under Amersham. Acres, 899. Real property, 1, 225. Pop., 244. Houses, 49. The property is divided among a -few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £108. Patron, Lord Chesham. The church was, not long ago, rebuilt and enlarged; and is good. There is an Independent chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Flaunden Parish       Hemel Hempstead Poor Law Union/Registration District       Hertfordshire Ancient County
Place: Flaunden

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