HITCHIN
Adjacent Parishes: Great Wymondley, Holwell (Beds > Herts), Ickleford, Ippollitts, Kings Walden, Knebworth, Letchworth, Norton, Offley, Pirton, St Pauls Walden, Stevenage, Stotfold (Beds)
Hitchin is in the Hitchin Hundred and the Hitchin Union
(Preston and Charlton were hamlets to the south of the parish)
Detail from Charles Smith's map of Hertfordshire (1808 edition)
Tilehouse Street, Hitchin from Journeys into Hertfordshire
Book: Survey of the Royal Manor of Hitchin, 1676 - paints a vivid picture of the town with many names. Two examples have been posted to show the kind of information that can be gleaned from it.
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Hitchin Market Place |
Some of the important books by Reginald L Hine Books: The History of Hitchin is an essential reference work. Books: Hitchin Worthies Biographies with portraits and other illustrations. (Benjamin Abbott shown) Books: Hitchin Old and New - 50 pictures Books: Relics of an Un-common Attorney Books: The Story of Hitchin Town - 26 line drawings (see picture of Market Place) |
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Bancroft, Post Card by Percy Girling, 1945 There are not many Hertfordshire towns where factories still remain in the centre of the town but there are still Ransoms, the manufacturing Chemists ... The entrance to Ransoms in Bancroft is under the archway of a 14th century timbered house which cannot be pulled down as it is preserved as an ancient monument. A great feature of this house is its lovely rounded chimney. It is occupied by one of Ransom's staff. The Works yard goes right through the factory buildings to its other entrance in Walsworth Road. [People, Places and Past Times of Hitchin, 1974] |
Book: The Book of Hitchin - a Barracuda local history published in 1981
Book: Hitchin in Camera, A Hitchin Century in Camera, Hitchin in Old Picture Postcards and Hitchin Villages in Camera all contain old photographs.
Book: The Radcliffes of Hitchin Priory by Ron Pigram; A Brief History of Hitchin Priory
Book: Down and Out in Hertfordshire: The Old and New Poor Law in Hitchin.
Book: Handbook to Hitchin & the Neighbourhood - 1899 history, directory and trade adverts
Book: Market Town
Book: Old Hitchin - photographs by T.B. Latchmore (1832-1908)
Book: Hodgson & Hankin: A Fishy Tale of Old Hitchin
Hitchin Market - postmarked 1903
Book: Hitchin Historical Society has published some interesting booklets including The Street Names of Hitchin, Joseph Ransom's Naturalist's Notebook, Early Education in Hitchin, The Formative Years of Hitchin Boy's School (1900-1975) and many others.
Book: Hitchin Inns and Incidents
Book: The House that Bartlett Built - An excellent example of the history of a single large house.
Book: Hitchin, A Photographic History
Book: Lust, Dust & Cobblestones - Life in Hitchin based on the contents of the Hertfordshire Express between 1900 and 1913
St Mary's Hitchin circa 1700
from Chauncy, Historical
Antiquities of Hertfordshire
Census: Hitchin 1801 & 1807 census - Interesting early survivals.
Bread Ticket token from the Hitchin Union Workhouse
Census: HALS runs an online teaching data base which includes a transcript of the people in the Hitchin Workhouse in 1891.
Directories: Hitchin 1794
Ephemera: In 1929 the Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) opened the New Wing of the North Herts and South Beds Hospital. The Souvenir Programme includes a history of the hospital, and many local business advertisements. (The Queen Mother's tutor lived in Dacre Road, Hitchin, where some of her education took place. See Hertfordshire's Queen.)
Bridge Street, Hitchin by E A Phipson (Hitchin Museum)
Topic: Watercolour Paintings of Hertfordshire by E A Phipson
Topic: Royal Engineers Signal Depot Camp, Hitchin, World War One
For information on the southern end of Bancroft see Golden Square, Hitchin
Web Site: Hitchin History Society
Web Sites: Hitchin - Two local sites which include pictures and information of possible interest to the family historian.
Web Site: The British Schools Museum is well worth a visit.
Web Site: North Hertfordshire Museums - details of Hitchin Museum, including an outline of resources available to the researcher, and some down-loadable files.
Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, built 1841
Web Site: Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Hitchin
>>> Extra Pictures of Hitchin <<<
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 Harkness Roses Hitchin |
 Riverside, Hitchin |
 Church Passage Hitchin |
 Bridge Street |
 High Street, Hitchin 38?3?46 JV |
 High Street, Hitchin |
 Sun Street, Hitchin |
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See also Vital Records
If you know of other books, websites, etc, relating to this place, please tell me.
Page updated January 2008
