Description
Digswell, a village and a parish in Herts. The village stands oil the river Maran, adjacent to the G.N.R., half a mile SSE from Welwyn station, and 4 miles N of Hatfield. It was known at Domesday as Dichelswelle, and it came to be a market-town, but has declined. The parish comprises 1674 acres; population, 249. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Welwyn. Digswell House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans ; value, £266 with residence. The church is a building in the Early English style, and it has some very interesting tombs and monuments. Digswell Water is an adjacent hamlet.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
