Westmill, Hertfordshire
Historical Description
Westmill, a parish, with a village, in Herts, on the river Rib, 1½ mile S by E of Buntingford, and 8 miles S from Royston. It has a station on the Buntingford branch of the G.E.R., and a post office under Buntingford (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Buntingford. Acreage, 2670; population, 348. Coles Park is a good country mansion in the Elizabethan style, standing in a park of about 140 acres. Two Roman cups were found in 1728. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross value. £434 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Mexborough. The church is a plain building of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower with spire. It has some good stained windows, and some ancient memorials. Cherry Green, Wakeley, and Westmill Green are adjacent hamlets.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Hertfordshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Westmill St. Mary | |
Hundred | Braughin | |
Poor Law union | Hitchin |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Westmill
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Westmill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Westmill (St. Mary))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hertfordshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Westmill 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.