Hertfordshire eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 212 pages of information about Hertfordshire.

Hertfordshire eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 212 pages of information about Hertfordshire.
Lord Somers who died here in 1716.  The house was completely burnt down thirty years ago and has only in part been rebuilt.  The further stretch of park adjoining Brookman’s on the S. is Gubbins, or more correctly Gobions, where formerly stood the old manor house in which Sir Thomas More lived awhile with his family.  The walks in each of these parks are very fine, and most beautifully wooded; they command distant views in many directions, and, in the autumn, are a perfect study in colour.  No London cyclist should fail to visit this picturesque and interesting neighbourhood.

MIMMS, SOUTH, recently included in the administrative county of Herts, has a restored, E. Perp. church, with fine massive W. tower.  The Frowyk chantry, at E. end of N. aisle, contains a very ancient tomb with recumbent effigy of a knight in armour, under a richly designed canopy.  The knight was a Frowyk, and there are also some mutilated brasses to this family.  The village is prettily situated on rising ground, 11/2 mile W. from Potter’s Bar Station, G.N.R. (Middlesex).

Moneybury Hill is on the Bucks border, close to the Bridgewater Column, 2 miles S.W. from Tring Station.

Moor Green (3 miles W. from Buntingford Station, G.E.R.) is a hamlet in Ardeley parish.

Morrell Green is a hamlet 2 miles E. from Barkway on the Essex border.  The nearest station is Buntingford, nearly 6 miles S.E.

Mortgrove, on the Beds border, is little more than a modern house, 11/2 mile S. from Hexton.

Munches Green lies in the centre of that quiet district of villages and hamlets which stretches between the G.N.R. and G.E.R.  It is a hamlet a little S.E. from Ardeley Bury and nearly 4 miles W. from Westmill Station, G.E.R.

MUNDEN, GREAT, formerly Mundon Furnival, from Gerrard de Furnival, who was Lord of the Manor in the time of Richard I., is a village 2 miles W. from Braughing Station, G.E.R.  There is a Norman doorway on the N. side of the church, and a small Perp. reredos which was discovered during restoration in 1865.  There is a brass in the chancel to John Lightfoot, Canon of Ely (d. 1675).  The hamlet of Nasty, a little N.E. from the church, now takes Munden Furnival as its alternative name, but the older historians give that title to the district around the parish church.

MUNDEN, LITTLE, or Munden Frewell, is 21/4 miles S.W. from the above, and 4 miles W. from Standon Station, G.E.R.  The church, conspicuously placed on the hill, dates from the thirteenth century; it was restored in 1866-68.  It is a structure of many parts, consisting of nave of three bays, chancel, N. chapel, N. aisle, N. and S. porches, and W. tower.  Note the two altar tombs beneath the chancel arcade, at the S. side of the chapel, each supporting the stone effigies of a male and female, presumably man and wife.  They bear no inscriptions, but from the arms and shields figured on one of them it is conjectured

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