Weston, Hertfordshire

Description
Weston, a parish, with a village and the hamlets of Hall's Green, Warren's Green, and Weston Dane End, in Herts, 3 miles SSE of Baldock station on the Hitchin and Cambridge branch of the G.N.R., 4 NE from Stevenage, and 6 E from Hitchin. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stevenage, and a fair for pleasure on 11 June. Acreage, 4540; population of the civil parish, 806; of the ecclesiastical, 876. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Weston Manor House belongs to the Pryor family, who own the manor and much of the land. Straw-plait is made. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £150 with residence. The church, an ancient building of flint and stone in the Norman and Early English styles, dates from about 1200, and consists of chancel, N transept, nave, S aisle, vestry, S porch, and an embattled central tower. There are Catholic Apostolic and Wesleyan chapels, two endowed almshouses, and some small charities.