Description
Cottered, a village and a parish in Herts, at the sources of the river Beane, 2 1/2 miles W of Buntingford town and station (G.E.K.), with a post office under Buntingford (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Bnntingford. Acreage of the civil parish, 1833; population, 357; of the ecclesiastical, 373. Broadfield and Hare Street are hamlets. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Broadfield, in the diocese of StAlbans; joint net yearly value, £364. The church, a building of flint in the Perpendicular style, was thoroughly restored in 1886.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
