Description
Ippollitts or St Ippolyts, a village and a parish in Herts. The village stands near the G.N.R., 2 miles SSE of Hitchin station, and is small. The parish contains also places called Gosmore, Ashbrook, and Little AImshoe, and is scattered. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Hitchin. Acreage, 2939; population, 894. A tumulus is at Gosmore and another is a mile S. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Great Wymondley, in the diocese of St Albans; net value,, £176. The church is of the 14th and 15th centuries, comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with porches and a tower with six bells, and contains an open Tudor screen.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
