Croxley Green, Hertfordshire

Historical Description

Croxley Green, a hamlet and ecclesiastical parish formed in 1872 from the civil parishes of Watford and Rickmansworth, Herts, 3 miles W from Watford, and about half a mile NE from Rickmansworth station on the L. & N.W.R. and Metropolitan railway, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Rickmansworth (R.S.O.) The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £261 with residence in the gift of the Vicar of Rickmansworth. The church, erected in 1871-72, is a building of Bath stone in the Early English style. There is a Primitiv& Methodist chapel.

Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Croxley Green

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hertfordshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Croxley Green 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.