Childwick Green is 1 mile S. from Harpenden Common, and 21/2 miles N. from St. Albans.

CHIPPERFIELD (21/2 miles W. from King’s Langley Station, L.&N.W.R.) was made an ecclesiastical parish in 1863.  The small church on the common, E.E. in style, built in 1837, is of little interest.  There is a good lich-gate at the N. entrance to the churchyard.  The neighbourhood is pleasant and varied.

Chipping (2 miles N. from Buntingford) is a small village on the Royston Road.

Chivesfield (or Chesfield) is 2 miles N.E. from Stevenage Station, G.N.R.  It is locally famous for its ruined church.  One John Wykins was rector here as early as 1323.  The windows were partly destroyed in 1642.  Some interesting memorials were extant in Chauncy’s day, and are mentioned in the second volume of his Antiquities.

[Illustration:  CHORLEY WOOD COMMON]

CHORLEY WOOD, a village 21/2 miles N.W. from Rickmansworth, has a station on the Met.R. near the Amersham Road.  The church, E.E. in style, dates from 1845, but was largely rebuilt in 1870.  William Penn, the Quaker, was married here.  There are many pretty walks through the Valley of the Chess, which flows between the village and Sarratt (q.v.).

Church End is a small hamlet in the parish of Albury, 3 miles E. from Braughing Station, G.E.R.

Clapgate, a hamlet on the river Ash, is close to Church End.

Clay End (11/2 mile S.E. from Walkern) is about equidistant—­5 miles—­from Stevenage or Westmill Stations.

Clay Hill is on the high road between Bushey and Bushey Heath (q.v.).

CLOTHALL (21/4 miles S.E. from Baldock) has an interesting church, chiefly Perp., on a gentle hill.  There is a good brass in the chancel to John Vynter, first rector of the church (d. 1404), and one to John Wright, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, also rector here (d. 1519).  On the S. of the church is a small Dec. chantry chapel.  Note also a sixteenth century brass to the wife and sixteen children of William Bramfield of Clothall.  The Saxons are said to have called the spot Cley Hall, because it stood on a hill of clay.  Clothall Bury is a little to the E.

Cockernhoe Green is 21/2 miles S.W. from Offley, and 21/2 miles N.E. from Luton Station (Beds).

Cockhampstead (2 miles N.E. from Braughing Station, G.E.R.) is near Albury Hall.

CODICOTE (3 miles N.W. from Welwyn Station, G.N.R.) is a large village on the Welwyn-Hitchin Road, with a pleasant heath a little W. The Church of St. Giles is an ancient structure, E.E., restored in 1853; it stands in a field 1/2 mile N. from the village.  The S. chapel dates from 1312.  The embattled W. tower is a fine structure.  There are several memorial windows, comparatively modern.

COLE GREEN has a station on the G.N.R. branch line from Hatfield to Hertford.  From the station little is to be seen except the Cowper’s Arms and a few cottages.