Bowman’s Green (1/4 mile N.E. from London Colney and 2 miles S. from Smallford Station, G.N.R.) is a tiny hamlet near the river Colne and the high road from Barnet to St. Albans.

BOXMOOR is a village about 11/2 mile S.W. from Hemel Hempstead.  The Grand Junction Canal flows between the village and the town.  From the station, L.&N.W.R., a motor car plies to and from Hemel Hempstead.  Many Roman remains have been found in the neighbourhood, particularly some remains of two Roman villas, and many coins of the period of Diocletian.  The church, erected in 1874, is E.E. in design, and was planned by Mr. Norman Shaw.  It has N. and S. aisles and porches.  There was an earlier structure on the same site.  Private residences are increasing so rapidly that the place is now almost a suburb of Hemel Hempstead.

Boydon’s Hill adjoins the village of Aldenham.

Bragbury End (11/4 mile E. from Knebworth Station, G.N.R.) is a hamlet on the Great North Road.

BRAMFIELD OR BRAINTFIELD (31/2 miles N.W. from Hertford Station, G.N.R.) is a parish and village.  The church is E.E., standing on the site of an earlier edifice; the present tower and spire were built in 1840, and the church itself restored in 1870.  We learn from Matthew of Westminster that Thomas Becket held the living here as his first charge; a pond near the church is called “Becket’s Pond”. Queen Hoo Hall, N.W. from the village, is now a farmhouse, but was formerly an Elizabethan residence, and gave the title to a romance partly written by Sir Walter Scott.  The neighbourhood is pleasant, and a pretty stroll may be taken either N.E. to Woodhall Park or S. to Panshanger Park.

Brandley Hill is 1 mile N.W. from Aston.

BRAUGHING has a station 3/4 mile S.W. from the town, on the Buntingford Branch of G.E.R.  It is an ancient parish, the “Brachinges” of Domesday Book, and was a Roman station.  The church and few streets of which the village consists are very picturesquely scattered on the S.W. slope of a hill overlooking the river Quin, at the intersection of the Roman Ermine Street and the road from Bishop’s Stortford to Baldock.  There was formerly a market each week, dating from the reign of Stephen; also an annual fair, abolished many years ago.  The church, close to the hand-bridge over the river, is largely Perp., and contains a few brasses, none of which are important.  It has been partially restored on several occasions during the last eighty years, and some of the modern workmanship is very good.  Note (1) open tracery in carved oak screen; (2) oak pulpit; (3) finely carved font of Caen stone; (4) old font outside, near the tower.  At Cockhampstead (11/2 mile E. from the church) was once an Augustinian priory.

Breachwood Green (about 31/2 miles N.E. from Luton Hoo Station, G.N.R., and 1 mile S. from King’s Walden Church) is a village on high ground rather more than a mile from the Bedfordshire border.  Pretty walks may be taken S.E. to Bendish or S.W. to Chiltern Green.