Description
Aspenden or Aspeden, a parish and a village in Herts, on the river Rib, I mile W of Buntingford station on the G.E.R. It includes part of the post town of Buntingford, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1711; population of the civil parish, 658 ; of the ecclesiastical, 408. Aspenden Hall, the seat of the Lushington family, and its park is a prominent feature. Aspenden Lodge is also a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £408. Patron, the Earl of Mex-borough. The church contains a curious monument to Sir Robert Clifford, master of the ordnance to Henry VII., and other tombs and brasses, and is in good condition.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
