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Brickendon
Brickendon is a village in the civil parish of Brickendon Liberty in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. The village lies about south of the county town Hertford, which is also its post town. As well as Brickendon village, the parish of Brickendon Liberty also covers surrounding rural areas. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 711. Brickendon village is centred on a traditional village green and a village pub, The Farmer's Boy. There is an active community with several clubs and activities. The name is said to have come from a Saxon by the name of Bricca who laid claim to the hill site, the Saxon word 'don' meaning a hill; thus Bricca's Hill. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the name appears as Brichendone. The manor of Brickendon was held by the canons and later the monks of Waltham Abbey, Essex, from about 1060 until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Henry II created the liberty of Brickendon in about 1174/84, which granted the abbot freedom from certain taxes normally due to the crown. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Cross and St Alban, was built in 1932 on land and with funds donated by Constance Demain Saunders and her mother Minnie Kingsley. It is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Bayford within the Hartford Hundred West group of parishes.…
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Brickendon is a village in the civil parish of Brickendon Liberty in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. The village lies about south of the county town Hertford, which is also its post town. As well as Brickendon village, the parish of Brickendon Liberty also covers surrounding rural areas. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 711. Brickendon village is centred on a traditional village green and a village pub, The Farmer's Boy. There is an active community with several clubs and activities. The name is said to have come from a Saxon by the name of Bricca who laid claim to the hill site, the Saxon word 'don' meaning a hill; thus Bricca's Hill. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the name appears as Brichendone. The manor of Brickendon was held by the canons and later the monks of Waltham Abbey, Essex, from about 1060 until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Henry II created the liberty of Brickendon in about 1174/84, which granted the abbot freedom from certain taxes normally due to the crown. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Cross and St Alban, was built in 1932 on land and with funds donated by Constance Demain Saunders and her mother Minnie Kingsley. It is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Bayford within the Hartford Hundred West group of parishes.…
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