Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire

Description
Gaddesden, Little, a parish in Herts, on the river Gade, near the boundary with Bucks and Beds, 4 miles N fromGreat Berkhampstead station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5 N of Great Berkhampstead. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hemel Hempstead. Acreage, 1616; population of the civil parish, 378; of the ecclesiastical, 312. The manor belonged to the Zouches, passed to the Stanleys and the Egertons, and belongs now to Earl Brownlow. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross yearly value, £255 with residence. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style, has an embattled tower, and contains monuments of the Egertons. The old manor house is a chief residence. John de Gaddesden, the famous physician of the early part of the 14th century, was a native.