Hunsdon and Widford
a local history
Hunsdon Local History Society
1979
Glossy Paperback, 21 * 15 cm, 60 pages, many b/w photographs & drawings
Hunsdon and Widford are Hertfordshire villages about half way between Ware and Sawbridgeworth
The cover (illustrated) shows a portrait of Edward VI, with Hunsdon Church and Hunsdon House in the background.
Sir Thomas Foster's tomb
Contents
Early History
The First Settlers
The Romans
The Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest
The Lords of the Manor
The Lords' powers
Tudor and Stuart Times
The Royal Connection with Hunsdon House
The Parish Churches and the Reformation
Local People: their occupations and possessions
Local Self-Government
Dissent and Independence
The Constable : The Pinder
The Aletaster : The Surveyor of the Highways
The Care of the Poor
Where They Lived
Village Lay-out: The Houses of the Poor
Widford Houses
Eastwick
Hunsdon
The Eighteenth Century Village
The Gentry and Their Houses
Village Society
The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Influence of the Landowners
Hunsdon Village
Widford Village
The Local Schools
The War, and the R.A.F. in Hunsdon.
