SHENLEY (2 miles E. from Radlett Station, M.R.) is of interest to many for its fine old “lock-up,” or cage, in the centre of the village.  We are on high ground here, and the tower of St. Alban’s Abbey is well seen above the trees to the N.W.  The village is scattered along several converging roads, and the surrounding country is undulating and beautifully wooded.  Turn down the lane opposite the Black Lion to reach the old church of St. Botolph, 1 mile N.N.W. from the cage.  Note the venerable yews, and the quaint old grave-boards in the graveyard; also the altar-tomb to Nicholas Hawksmoor, a pupil of Wren, and the architect of St. Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street (d. at Shenley, 1736).  The church was partly rebuilt in the middle of the eighteenth century, when the tower was demolished and a structure of timber, with quadrangular tiled roof, eventually erected in its stead.  This has disappeared, and the “old parish church” is now an oblong building of flints, chalk-faced, with tiled roof. Porters, in the park, a little W., was the residence of Admiral Lord Howe. Salisbury Hall, a gabled manor house with massive chimneys, surrounded by a moat, is Jacobean, and stands on the spot occupied successively by the older houses of the Montacutes, and of Sir John Cutts, Treasurer and Privy Councillor to Henry VIII.  Eugene Aram visited the neighbourhood.

Sleap’s Hyde (1/2 mile S.E. from Smallford Station, G.N.R.) is a hamlet in the parish of Colney Heath.

Smug Oak, a few cottages, lies on the E. confines of Bricket Wood, 1/2 mile N.E. from that station, L.&N.W.R.

Smyth’s End adjoins Barley on the S. (q.v.).

Solesbridge Lane, on the river Chess, is close to Chorley Wood.

Southend and Southend Green are hamlets, (1) adjoining Stevenage on the S., (2) 1/2 mile E. from Rushden.

Spellbrook is a hamlet nearly midway between Sawbridgeworth and Bishop’s Stortford.

Stanborough, on the Hatfield-Welwyn road, is midway between Hatfield and Brocket Hall Parks.  The road which branches N.W. from the hamlet leads to the modern church at Lemsford (q.v.).

STANDON has several claims to notice.  It is a large village, 1 mile E. from the Old North Road.  A little W., and on the other side of the railway, is the mansion which occupies the site of Standon Lordship, a fine old manor house, of which hardly a vestige remains.  It was long owned by the Sadleir family, most illustrious of whom was Sir Ralph Sadleir (d. 1587), who fought at Pinkie. (See below.)