Hertfordshire Genealogy: Places: Little Hadham

Little Hadham (4 miles s.) includes Hadham Ford, Westland Green, Green Street and Bury Green. At the last-named are three splendid medieval farmhouses. Hadham Hall, built for the Capel family and later partly destroyed by fire, retains many beautiful Elizabethan features. The Hall was acquired by the Hertfordshire County Council some years ago and has been extended considerably. It is now a splendid bilateral Secondary School with spacious playing fields and gardens. The parish church dates from the 12th century and is notable for its timbered south porch. The oaken chancel screen is 500 years old.

Parish Church, Little Hadham

Hadham Hall

The church of St Edmund the Martyr is a building of flint with stone dressings, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north trancept (built by the Capels in the 17th century), south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 5 bells, three of which are dated 1595, 1623 and 1693; a Perpendicular screen of oak divides the chancel and nave ... the chancel was restored in 1885 from the designs of Sir A. W. Blomfield.

Hadham Hall, the property and residence of William Minet esq, M.A. F.S.A. is a mansion of the Late Elizabethan period; the principal entrance is flanked by two hexagonal towers; a long corridor, with mullioned windows, funs the whole length of the house; Queen Elizabeth is said to have visited the Hall in 1578.

Kelly's Directory for Hertfordshire, 1902

Web: There is a Hadham Community Website which has about a page of local history information the last time I looked at it.

Neil Stockton has a lot of information on Little Hadham relating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries that he would be happy to share - see HALE, Little Hadham, 19th century

If you know of other books, websites, etc, relating to this place, please tell me.

The Village, Little Hadham
Postcard published by J Houghton, Post Office, Little Hadham
posted 1912