Cherry Green (1 mile S.W. from West Mill Station, G.E.R.) is a small hamlet.

CHESHUNT, according to Grose’s Antiquities, the Durolitum of Antoninus, is a large parish which contains much of interest.  Its ancient names, Cestre, Ceaster, Cestrehunt, leave little doubt that it was a Roman station.[3] At Roman Urn Inn, near the station, G.E.R., is an urn imbedded in the wall; it was discovered close by some years ago, and is probably of Roman manufacture.  Cheston, yet another old name of this spot, has been thought to be derived from the chestnut trees once plentiful in the neighbourhood, of which many of the houses were built.  William I. gave the manor to Alan the Red, Earl of Brittany, and it remained an appendage to that earldom for a long time.  Edward III. granted a weekly market to be held in the town every Monday.  The Church of St. Mary the Virgin was built in 1420 by Nicholas Dixon, who held the living of Cheshunt for thirty years.  It is Perp., entirely embattled; the W. tower has an octagonal cupola.  Restoration was carefully effected during 1872-4, under Mr. G. F. Bodley.  The rood-screen, lectern and pulpit are of carved oak, all comparatively new.  The memorials are very numerous; amongst them may be noted (1) brass on chancel floor to the above-mentioned Nicholas Dixon (d. 1448); (2) brass to William Pyke (d. 1449); (3) two female effigies, 1500-20; (4) altar tomb in chancel to Robert Dacres, Privy Councillor to Henry VIII.  There are windows of stained glass to a former vicar (d. 1858); to General Miles (d. 1860), and, in the tower, to one Robert Archer, for thirty-six years parish clerk.  N. from the main street, near the river Lea, stood a small Benedictine nunnery.  It originally belonged to the Canons of Cathele, but Henry III. turned them out and gave the property and rights to the “Prioress and Nuns of Cesthont”.  The college, a famous institution, stands near the church; it was founded in 1768 by Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, at Trevecca, near Talgarth, S. Wales, and removed to Cheshunt after her death.  A few years ago it was bought by the Church of England, for use as a theological college.  Close by, too, is the site of Pengelly House, once the home of Richard Cromwell.  Cheshunt Park (1 mile N.) is full of memories of the Cromwells and the Russells.  The Great House, near Church Gate, was one of the many residences of Cardinal Wolsey.  Both the house and the moat are still preserved.

[Footnote 3:  Chauncy writes:  “This Vill in old Records was called Cestrehunt, from Castrum in the Latin, which might, in all Probability, import some castle erected here by the Romans; and the Saxons imitating the name, though corruptly ... might from hence call it Cestrehunt".]

CHESS, river. (See Introduction.)

Cheverell’s Green (11/2 mile N.W. from Flamstead, and about 4 miles N.W. from Redbourn Station, M.R.) is a small hamlet and green adjoining Beechwood Park.