Great Gaddesden
In 1973 Great Gaddesden became part of the new borough of Dacorum, which is named after an ancient Saxon hundred of the same name.
Adjacent Parishes: Berkhamsted, Flamstead, Hemel Hempstead, Little Gaddesden, Northchurch, Pitstone (Bucks - including Nettleden), Studham (Bedfordshire)
Great Gaddesden was in the Dacorum Hundred and the Hemel Hempstead Union.
Map from Hemel Hempstead Rural District Official Guide (1971)
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Great Gaddesden Published by Posted 1908 |
Book: A Hertfordshire Valley includes a chapter on Great Gaddesden.
Web site: Gazette - Important local History pages
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Gaddesden Place, which overlooks Water End, Great Gaddesden, was gutted by fire, on the 1st February, 1905.The top postcard, which may be based on a photograph but is clearly an art work, was posted to Miss E. Barber, 71 Ackerman Street, Tring, early on the morning of 6th February. It reads: Dear Sis and Father. I hope that you are all getting along quite well as it leaves us about the same as usual. We went to see the great fire yesterday there were thousands of people to see it and the funeral of the butler. [signed] A & L. The lower postcard is unused, and is definitely a photograph. but as both were published by Downer they were probably published together within a couple of days of the fire. |
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Burning of Gaddesden Place |
Web Site: Gade Valley Discovery Walk
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 Great Gaddesden War Memorial |
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Exterior Gt. Gaddesden Church Posted 1908 |
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The Bridge Ref. No 116A Posted 1915 |
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Water End 1923 Almost certainly an amateur snapshot |
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See Population Movements in Rural Hertfordshire for information on where the people living in Great Gaddesden were born in the 1881 census.
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 Water End Bridge |
 "Lion Bridge" |
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See also Dacorum, Potten End and Vital Records
If you know of other books, websites, etc, relating to this place, please tell me.
| March 2010 | Lion Bridge PC |
