Norton Green, between Knebworth Park and Stevenage, is 1/2 mile W. from the Great North Road.  It is a small hamlet.

Nup End (11/2 mile W. from Knebworth Station, G.N.R.) is almost one with Knebworth Green.  Codicote church is 1 mile S.W.

Nuthampstead (about 5 miles N.E. from Buntingford Station, G.E.R.) is a large hamlet on the Essex border.  The parish churches of Barkway (W.), Anstey (S.W.), and Meesdon (S.E.) may all be reached within a short walk.

OFFLEY or OFFLEY ST. LEGER (3 miles S.W. from Hitchin) is a village at the meeting of the ways from Hitchin, Temple Dinsley, and Lilley.  It owes its name to Offa, King of the Mercians, who had a palace here, as we learn from his life by Matthew Paris, and its adjunct to the St. Legiers, who became Lords of the Manor soon after the Conquest.  Miss Hester Salusbury, who became Mrs. Thrale, and afterwards Mrs. Piozzi, used as a child to visit at Offley Place, in the park close to the church.  The old mansion was built by Sir Richard Spencer in 1600, and in part rebuilt early last century, when its style was changed from Jacobean to a form of Gothic.

The church (restored Perp.) stands in the park, close to the road.  Note (1) monument in chancel to Sir H. Penrice, Kt. (d. 1752); a figure of Truth standing on a sarcophagus of black marble, the whole finely executed; (2) monument in white marble, by Nollekens, to Sir Thomas Salusbury, Kt. (d. 1773), and Sarah his wife (d. 1804); (3) brass with effigy, to John Samwell (d. 1529), and his wives Elizabeth and Joan; (4) brass to a civilian and his family (circa 1530); (5) well carved Perp. font.

Offley, Little, is a hamlet 11/4 mile N.W. from the above.

Offley Green is 4 miles N.W. from Buntingford Station, G.E.R.  The walk beside Julians[l] Park to Rushden, 1 mile S.W., is very pleasant.

Offley Holes (21/2 miles S.W. from Hitchin) is a small hamlet.  Offley Grange, Offley Hoo, Offley Cross and Offley Bottom are all in the immediate neighbourhood, W. and N.W.

Old Hall Green (11/2 mile W. from Standon Station, G.E.R.) lies W. from the Old North Road.  It is a small hamlet.

OXHEY (2 miles S. from Watford) is a hamlet on the Middlesex border.  It has a good modern church, E.E. in style.  N. lies Oxhey Place, on the site of the old home of the Heydon family, rebuilt by Sir William Bucknall in 1668, and again by Hon. William Bucknall in 1799.  The chapel, close to the old mansions, was spared by both those renovators, but has since been repeatedly restored.  It contains many interesting monuments, conspicuous among which is that on the S. wall to Sir James Altham (d. 1617) who had built the chapel on the site of an earlier structure in 1612.  The old judge is represented kneeling in his robes between two pillars, beneath a canopy of alabaster; behind him is the effigy of his third wife Helen (Saunderson).  Note the carved