Description
Datchworth, a village and a parish in Hertfordshire, 1 1/2 mile E by S from Knebworth station on the G.N.R., and 6 1/2 miles NW of Hertford, with a post office under Stevenage; money order and telegraph office, Knebworth. Acreage, 1960 ; population, 672. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; value, £302 with residence. Patron, Clare 'College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of stone and flint chiefly in the Decorated style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
