Flaunden, Hertfordshire

Historical Description

Flaunden, a village and a parish in Herts, on the river Chess, at the boundary with Bucks, 4 miles SW from Box-moor station on the L. &N.W.R., 5 ENE of Amersham, and 5 NW of Rickmansworth, with a post office under Ches-ham (R.S.O.); money order office, Bovingdon; telegraph office, Latimer. Acreage, 919; population, 181. The living was consolidated in 1876 with the rectory of Latimer in Bucks. The united rectory is in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £220 with residence. Patron, Lord Chesham. The church was erected in 1838, and is a plain building of flint and brick, being one of the earliest, if not the very first, of Sir Gilbert Scott's churches. The old parish church, situated 1¼ mile nearer Latimer, has fallen into decay, the roof and E wall having both disappeared. There is a Baptist chapel.

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.

Church Records

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Flaunden from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Flaunden 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.