Description
Reed, a parish, with a village, in Herts, 3 1/2 miles S from Royston station on the Hitchin and Cambridge branch of the G.N.R., and 4 N from Buntingford station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Royston; money order and telegraph office, Barkway. Acreage, 1477; population, 206. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Barkway, in the diocese of St Albans; joint net yearly value, £316. The church is a small but ancient building of flint and rubble in the Saxon, Norman, and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and an embattled western tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
