Great HormeadGreat Hormead
Adjacent Parishes: Anstey, Brent Pelham, Furneux Pelham, Layston, Little Hormead
It is in Edwinstree Hundred and the Buntingford Union
Great Hormead (2½ miles E. from Buntingford) has a restored fifteenth century church, perhaps 1400-20, containing a brass to a benefactor, one William Delawood (1694) and a mural monument to Lieut.-Col, Stables, killed at Waterloo. The village is close to the River Quin, which flows between the church and Hare Street on the Cambridge Road.
Hertfordshire Little Guide 1903
Parish
Church
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The Schools
Horse Shoe
Lane The Post
Office
Hormead (3 miles N.) comprises Great and Little Hormead and Hare Street on the River Quin. In this parish are a number of picturesque houses and two old windmills. Great Hormead church is a restored 15th century edifice. The church of Little Hormead retains a considerable amount of Norman work including a very fine doorway.
Braughing Rural District Official Guide 1971
Parish
Church
The Hall
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The Village The
Windmills
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Alderman, A Pilgrimage in Hertfordshire, 1931 Unfortunately the windmills have not survived |
See also Vital Records
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Page updated March 2006
Above
the village, on the ridge, a most delightful windmill group, one of the
most fascinating scenes in the county. Approach is by means of a
cart-track or an alternative footpath. Immediately to the east and north
is a large orchard, at the time I was there white with blossoms. Both of
the Mills are built of timber; one is a "smock," and the other
of the "post" or "stump" type. It is to be hoped
this group will not be allowed to go derelict; one hears so much lately
of our fast-vanishing windmills. It would not take a very great sum of
money to maintain these two good specimens intact.