Radlett, Hertfordshire
Historical Description
Radlett, a village and an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1864, in Aldenham civil parish, Herts, on the M.R., on which it has a station, 4½ miles S of St Albans. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under St Albans. Population of ecclesiastical parish, 544. There is a joint parish council for the ecclesiastical parishes of Aldenham and Radlett consisting of twelve members and a chairman. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £275 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Aldenham. The church, erected in 1864, is a building in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, transepts, nave, N porch, and central tower with octagonal broach spire and eight tubular bells.
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hertfordshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Radlett are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Hertfordshire newspapers online:
- Hertford Mercury and Reformer
- Herts Guardian, Agricultural Journal, and General Advertiser
- Watford Observer
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hertfordshire, 1572 and 1634. Edited by Walter C. Metcalfe, F.S.A. is available on the Heraldry page.