North Mimms, Hertfordshire

Description
Mimms, North, a village and a parish in Herts, adjacent to the G.N.R. and to the boundary with Middlesex, 3 miles. SSW of Hatfield station. The parish contains the hamlets of Bell Bar, Roestock, Waterend, Little Heath, Marsh Moor,. and Welham Green, and it has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hatfield. There is also a post, money-order, and telegraph office at Bell Bar. Acreage, 4966 y population, 1511. The manor belonged to the Magnavilles,. passed to the Knolles, the Hydes, and the Osbornes, and; now belongs to the Bruces. The manor of Brookmans belongs to the Gaussen family. North Mimms Park is a fina mansion of brick which was erected about 1600 by Sir Ralph Coninghby; it stands in a park of 1600 acres. Brooklands is another fine mansion, very pleasantly situated on an eminence, surrounded by beautiful grounds and a park of about 500 acres. Potterells is a chief residence standing in a park of 200 acres, and there are several other fine villas in the-parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £283 with residence. The church was built in the time of King Stephen by Sir Hugh Magnaville, is a building of flint and stone in the pure Decorated style, was> recently restored, consists of nave, aihies, chancel, and N chapel, with tower and spire, and contains many interesting brasses and monuments. There are charities worth about £150 a year.