Hertfordshire Genealogy: Places: Ware

Ware

Adjacent Parishes: Bengeo, Great Amwell, Hertford All Saints, Hunsdon, Much Hadham, Stanstead Abbots, Thundridge, Widford

Ware is in the Braughing Hundred

The Ware Poor Law Union covered the following 14 parishes: Broxbourne, Eastwick, Gilston, Great Amwell, Great Munden, Hoddesdon, Hunsdon, Little Munden, Standon, Stanstead Abbots, Stanstead St Margaret, Thundridge, Widford, Wormley and Ware

West Street, Ware
Raphael Tuck Oilette postcard circa 1906

West Street, from A Quaint Old Fashioned Place

Book: A Quaint Old Fashioned Place - East Hertfordshire in the 1830s

Book: The History of Ware

General View of Ware

Published by G Price & Son, Ware

Posted 1905

Book: The Book of Ware

Book: “Wickham of Ware - the history of D. Wickham & Co. Ltd, Railcar Manufacturers" by James Cooper Jnr and Loxley Ford, edited by David Perman and published by Rockingham Press in December 2003 (ISBN 978-1-873468-40-1). - Wickhams were one of the largest employers in Ware at one time and established a worldwide reputation for themselves as suppliers to the railway industry. They also built rolling stock for the British Railways Board and had a special arrangement with them to use the St Margarets to Buntingford branch line to test completed trains before delivery. [Book recommended by Rob Candlish.] [link]

Book: Ware Men in the First World War, by Derek Armes, Rockingham Press, 1998 [link]

Book: The Ware Mutiny 1647, by Alan Thomson, Rockingham Press, 1996 [link]

Book: Ware at War 1939-1945, by Derek Armes, Rockingham Press, 2002 [link]

Book: Ware's Past in Pictures, by Maurice Edwards and David Perman, Rockingham Press, 1991 [link]

WARE PARK
Hertfordshire
London: Published by John Harris, St Pauls Church Yard March 1 1802
Engraved by Greig, from a Drawing by Tomkins?
For the Beauties of England & Wales
[May 2007: John Bilcliffe (john.bilcliffe @t virgin.net) writes: I can confirm categorically that Charles Tomkins did in fact make the drawing from which Grieg produced the engraving. I have been researching the Tomkins family for many years.]

Ware Park - Charles Vaughan Series posted in 1903

The Font
Clutterbuck, The History of the County of Hertford, 1827

Education: Ware Schools, circa 1840 & Wareside Grammar School

Museum: Scott's Grotto Museum web site scotts-grotto.org

Museum: Ware Museum web site wareonline.co.uk/museum

Occupations: Barge Builders in 1881

Web: Ware Online provides a lot of information about the town, including a potted history, and information on Ware Museum.

Web: Lee Valley Online includes historical information on the principal towns and villages on the River including Ware.

Web: The East Herts District Council web page also contain a page containing some historical information, and links to other possibly relevant web sites.

Place House, Ware. Originally a Medieval Hall House
from Hertfordshire Countryside, March 1976

Web: The History of the Workhouse contains significant information about the workhouse.

THE PRIORY
Ware, Hertfordshire
London: Published by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, Poultry, July 1, 1811
Drawn & Engraved by J. Storer
For the Beauties of England & Wales

The Great Bed of Ware - Posted 1905
The Bed is currently in the Victoria and Albert Museum
See also Rye House

See

The Great Bed of Ware

in the Victoria & Albert Museum

>> Extra Pictures of Ware <<

See The Postcards of R. W. Harradence of Ware

See Church of England School, Ware, early 20th century

See Bricklayers & Builders of Ware, Early 19th Century

Quick links to extra postcard images. click on thumbnail picture
London Road	River Lea