Gaddesden Green is practically one with the above, the marble cross and fountain to the memory of Lady Marian Alford (d. 1888) being between the village and the Green.  Gaddesden Hoe is 2 miles E. from the S. end of the Green.

Gaddesden Row (3 miles N. from Hemel Hempstead Station, M.R.) is a straggling hamlet equidistant (about 2 miles) from Flamstead and Great Gaddesden.

GADE, river. (See Introduction.)

Gallows Hill (1/2 mile S. from King’s Langley Station, L.&N.W.R.) is a hamlet.  The Booksellers’ Provident Retreat is here.  It is also the name of a hill between Hertford and Ware, on which stands the Joint Isolation Hospital for the two towns.

Gannock Green is 21/2 miles S. from Ashwell Station, G.N.R.  The nearest church is at Sandon.  Gannock Farm is 1/2 mile E.

Gardener’s End (31/2 miles W. from Buntingford) is a hamlet in the parish of Ardeley.

Garston is 11/4 mile S.W. from Bricket Wood Station, L.&N.W.R.

Gibraltar, on the road from Harpenden to Luton, is on the Bedfordshire border, close to Luton Hoo Park and Station, G.N.R.

GILSTON (2 miles N. from Burnt Hill Station (Essex) and about 2 miles S.E. from Widford village) is a scattered parish.  Chauncy says it was probably waste ground at the time of the Conquest, as there is no mention of it in Domesday Book.  The church was very probably erected by Geoffrey de Magnaville, who was Earl of Essex and Lord of the Manor of Sabriesword (Sawbridgeworth) during the reign of Stephen.  It is E.E. and stands on the hill about 1/4 mile N. from the Park.  There is a fine double piscina in the chancel, and some heraldic glass in the windows, showing the coats of Astley, Bassett, Eastfield and Engayne.  The monuments to the Gore family are numerous; amongst those buried in the church are (1) Sir John Gore, Kt. (d. 1659); he was twice sheriff of the county, and a member of Cromwell’s second Protectorate Parliament; (2) Dame Dorothy Gore (Kempe), second wife to the foregoing (d. 1645); (3) Dame Persis, wife to Sir Humphrey Gore, Kt. (d. 1665); (4) in churchyard, John, eldest son of the said Sir Humphrey (d. 1691).  The Feathers, a fine old inn (circa 1680), still stands in this village; an excellent photograph of it was reproduced in the Home Counties Magazine (Oct. 1901). Gilston Park, beautiful but not very extensive, should be visited; for the mansion (A.  S. Bowlby, Esq., M.A., J.P., etc.) stands near the site of New Place, successively the home of the Chauncys, Gores and Plumers.  The house was enlarged and beautified by Sir Humphrey Gore, who was knighted at Whitehall in 1660.  In 1701 it passed into the hands of Col.  John Plumer, whose family is so well known to readers of the Essays of Elia.  It was his grandson William (d. 1822) whom Lamb calls “a fine old Whig”.  This William left no family, so the house at Gilston Park and his other house, the famous “Blakesmoor in H——­shire” of Lamb’s essay, passed to his widow (and cousin) Jane Hamilton, a daughter of Hon. George Hamilton, Canon of Windsor.