Ippollitts
Adjacent Parishes: Great Wymondley, Hitchin, Kings Walden, Little Wymondley, Stevenage
It is in the Hitchin hundred and the Hitchin Union
Ippollitts or St Ippolyts, is a place name which is very prone to being mispelt and the village on modern maps (St. Ippollitts) is spelt differently to the dedication of the church (St. Ippolyts). The following place names from the 1881 census almost certainly all refer to it:
Iplits | Ipolits | Ipollitts | Ipollyts | Ipolytes | Ipolyts | Ippatyts | Ipplits | Ipployts | Ipplyts | Ippolett | Ippoletts | Ippolits | Ippolitss | Ippolits | Ippolitss | Ippolitts | Ippollit | Ippollits | Ippollitts | Ippollyts | Ippollytts | Ippololits | Ippolts | Ippolytis | Ippolyts | Ippolytts | Ippoplitts
Detail from Charles
Smith's map of Hertfordshire (1808 edition)
St Ippolyts Church
Frith postcard 49745A -
Photographed 1903
IPPOLITTS, a parish in the hundred of Hitchin and Pirton, county of Hertford, 1½ mile (S.E by S.) from Hitchin, containing 671 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, united with Great Wymondley in 1685, in the archdeaconary of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £11. The church, dedicated to St. Hippolytus, has at the western end a square tower, embattled, and surmounted by a short spire: adjoining the church-yard are two almshouses, endowedby a person unknown.
Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831
Skating at St Ippolyts
from The
Story of Hitchin Town
The Ippollitts Local History Group (p.j.skeggs
@t i.c.24.net) has provided details of the following books:
A Parish Remembers Ippollits 1900 to 1950, ISBN 0 95171355 07 £12.99 each
A School Remembers St Ippolyts 1846 to 1992 ISBN 0 9517135 5 8 £12.99 each
St Ippolyts by Daphne Rance, ISBN 0 905858 38 7
The Yeomen of Ippolyts by Daphne Rance, ISBN 0 904378 48 9
St Ippollitts Church
St Ibbs
See also Vital Records
If you know of other books, websites, etc, relating to this place, please tell me.