Northaw or Northall, Hertfordshire

Historical Description

Northaw or Northall, a village and a parish in Herts. The village stands on a hill adjacent to the boundary with Middlesex, 2½ miles E by N of Potters Bar station on the G.N.R. main line, and 4¼ NE by N of Barnet; is a neat place, and has a post office under Potters Bar; money order and telegraph office, Potters Bar. The parish contains also the hamlet of Cuffley, which is about 2 miles E. Acreage, 3306; population, 582. The manor is held by the Kidston family. There are many good residences in the parish, the more important being Nyn Park (the seat of the lord of the manor, a building of red brick standing in the midst of a pleasant park). The Hook, Northaw Place, The Woodlands, Northaw House, and Upper Barvin. A mineral spring is at Cuffley, and another mineral spring was on Northaw Common, now enclosed, but has been choked up. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £230 with residence. The church was erected in 1881-82 in the place of a former building which was destroyed by fire; is a cruciform building of Ancaster stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, S aisle, S porch, and a western tower. A new N aisle was built in 1888. There are charities worth about ,6280 a year.

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.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Northaw or Northall from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Northaw (St. Thomas à Becket))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Northaw or Northall 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.