Wormley, Hertfordshire

Description
Wormley, a parish, with a village, in Herts, on the Lea river, 1 mile SSW of Broxbourne station on the London and Cambridge section of the G.E.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Broxbourne (S.O.) Acreage, 946; population, 871. The manor was given by Harold to Waltham Abbey, went at the dissolution of monasteries to the Norths, passed to the Cromwells, and, with Wormleybury House, belongs now to the Bushby family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £270 with residence. The church, which dates from the 12th century, is an edifice of flint and brick, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, S porch, and western bell-turret. It has some ancient tombs and brasses, some good memorial windows, and a Norman font. There is a Congregational chapel.