Flamstead, Hertfordshire

Description
Flamstead, a village and a parish in Herts. The village stands near the river Ver, near Watling Street, and near the boundary with Beds, 2 1/2 miles NW from Redboume station on the M.R., and 7 NW from St Albans, was anciently called Verlamsted, and was once a market-town. It has a post office under Dunstable; money order and telegraph office, Markyate Street. The parish comprises 6004 acres; population of the civil parish, 1701; of the ecclesiastical, 1068. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £178 with residence. " Patron, University College, Oxford. The church, a large and ancient building of flint in the Decorated style, contains Norman work, has a carved screen^ two stalls, a piscina, a canopied effigy of a knight, and a brass of 1414. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Of the hamlets in this parish, Pepperstock is about 2 1/2 miles N of the village; Gibraltar, 2 miles NE; Cheverells Green, 1 mile NW; Delmoor End, half a mile E; Flamstead Bury, 2 miles SE; Trowley Bottom, half a mile S; Heavensr gate, 2 1/4 miles S; Hollesmoor End, 3 miles S; and Pudde-phats, 1 mile SW.