Towns & Villages in Herts

Markyate or

Market Street

Adjacent Parishes: Caddington (Beds), Flamstead, Harpenden, Luton (Beds), Redbourn, Studham (Beds).

It is in the modern Borough of Dacorum

 Until 1877 the village of Market Street, or Markyate, was in three separate ecclesiastical parishes - Studham, Caddington and Flamstead and became one civil parish in 1897.

The Chequers Inn, Friars Wash, circa 1910
from Markyate's Past No. 7

The Markyate Local History Society has an excellent web site with plenty of local history interest. It gives details of it's journal "Markyate's Past" and details of "The Book of Markyate" which was published in 2002.The Markyate Parish Council web site has little history but is a good source of information as it is now.

Cutting hay inn a field above London Road, early 1900
from advanced publicity for "The Book of Markyate"

Marykate (or Market Street) is a village and parish, 4 miles south-east from Dunstable, on the Roman Road (Watling Street), from London to Birmingham, 8 miles from St Albans and 4 from Redbourn, in the Hemel Hempstead Division of the county, Hemel Hempstead petty sessional division and union and the hundred of Dacorum; it was formed into an ecclesiastical district out of the parishes of Studham (Beds) and Flamstead and Caddington (Herts) in 1877, and is in the rural deanery, archdeaconry and diocese of St Albans. By a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board, dated Sept. 30th, 1897, under the provisions of the "Local Government Act, 1894," Markyate was formed into a civil parish out of a portion of Caddington parish (Herts), the hamlet of Humbershoe (Beds), a detached portion of the parish of Houghton Regis (known as Buckwood Stubbs) (Beds), and a portion of the parish of Flamstead (Herts). The portion of Houghton Regis parish and the hamlet of Humbershoe were under the above order transferred to the county of Hertford; the whole of the civil parish is now in that county.

The village is supplied with gas by the Markyate Gas Co. Ltd. and with water by the Hemel Hempstead Rural District Council. A system of drainage was laid down in 1912. The church of St John the Baptist, in the park of Markyate Cell, was enlarged by Joseph Howell esq. in 1811; it is a small unpretending building, consisting of chancel, nave and a western turret containing one bell: the chancel was added in 1892 at a cost of £800: a new organ, the gift of Mrs. Francis W. Adye in memory of her late husband, was added in 1911: at the east end of the church is a stained glass window given by Arthur Collings Wells esq. in memory of his son, Lieut-Col. J. S. Collings Wells V.C., D.S.O. of the Bedfordshire regiment and other Markyate men who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918. The register dates from the year 1877. ...

Kelly's Directory for Hertfordshire, 1922 (Archive CD Books)

Markyate Cell, from Markyate in Camera
See The Wicked Lady of Markyate Cell

Book: Markyate in Camera

Book: The Book of Markyate

Book: A New History of Flamstead

Book: Remember Markyate, Flamstead and Trowley

Book: Caddington & Kensworth

Map from Hemel Hempstead Rural District Official Guide (1971)

Topics: War memorials and Rolls of Honour - give details of War Memorial

 

St John the Baptist of Markyate - in Hertfordshire Countryside, September 2006

See also Vital Records and Boundary Changes

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