High Cross, Hertfordshire

Historical Description

High Cross, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Standon civil parish, Herts. The village stands 3 miles SW from Standon station on the G.E.R., and 3 N from Ware. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ware. Colliers End, Wadesmill, and High Cross are hamlets. Population of ecclesiastical parish, 689. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; gross yearly value, £158 with residence. The church, erected in 1847, is a building of grey stone in the Decorated style.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for High Cross from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (High-Cross)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of High Cross 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.