Wormley (St. Lawrence)
WORMLEY (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Ware, hundred and county of Hertford, 2¼ miles (N. by E.) from Cheshunt; containing 500 inhabitants. The Eastern Counties railway, and the New River, pass through the parish; and the river Lea bounds it on the east. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £10. 12. 3½., and in the gift of Earl Brownlow: the tithes have been commuted for £200. The church has a Norman doorway, and, at the west end, a square wooden tower; it contains several tablets, altar-tombs, and other sepulchral memorials.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.