Reed (St. Mary)
REED (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Royston, hundred of Odsey, county of Hertford, 1¾ mile (W. by N.) from Barkway; containing 260 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with the vicarage of Barkway consolidated in 1800, valued in the king's books at £13. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Harcourt family; net income, £512. The tithes were commuted for land under an inclosure act, in 1801. The church has a square embattled tower of flint.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.