Bayford
Adjacent Parishes: Hatfield, Hertford All Saints, Hertingfordbury, Little Berkhampstead
Bayfordbury, Bayford
from a Regal Art Publishing Co. postcard posted in 1911
ADVOWSON: Bayford Church, which is mentioned as early as 1222, was a chapelry pertaining to the rectory of Essendon until 1867, and the advowson therefore follows that of Essendon, In 1867 t was made a vicarage in the presentation of the lord of the manor, and was endowed under the Common Fund.
In 1366 the people of Bayford appealed for the right of sepulture at their own chapel, owing to the inconvenience of having to go to Essendon, They stated that the distance between their chapel and Essendon Church was about 3 miles and that the vill of Little Berkhampstead lay between them. The bodies had to be carried past a water mill on a stream of which one bank was in Berkhampstead and the other in Essendon, wherefore the carts going with bodies afe often brought to grief in the river, and the people attending annoyed with attachments in passing through Berkhampstead,
Victoria County History of Hertfordshire
Bayford Church - posted 1907
See also Vital Records
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