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.