Towns & Villages in Herts

SANDRIDGE

Adjacent Parishes: Ayot St Lawrence, Ayot St Peter, Hatfield, Kimpton, St Michaels (St Albans), St Peters (St Albans), Wheathampstead.

It is in the Cashio Hundred and the St Albans Union.

see also St Saviours (Bernards Heath), Nomansland Common and Windmill Hill


Detail of Dury's map showing the village of Sandridge

Census: There is an index of the 1891 census at HALS

Directories: The 1832 County Poll Book - example lists Sandridge voters.

Maps: In reviewing maps of Hertfordshire the village of Sandridge is used to indicate how much detail each map shows.


Water End Farm, birth place of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. (Cussans)

Book: Historic Sandridge Revisited is an updated version of an earlier history, and provides an excellent introduction to the village and its people in earlier centuries.

Book: A Short History of Bernards Heath - is the history of common land which was in the parish of Sandridge but is now a district in St Albans. There is also information on The Brickmakers of St Albans


Sandridge Village - circa 1904


St Leonards Church
showing the Queens Head by the church - back circa 1905

Published C H Dawson, PO, Sandridge
[Charles Dawson not listed 1902, listed as grocer & post office in 1908. Kelly's directory]

Book: Population ... Volume 2: The St Albans Region - includes a transcript of the 1851 census.

Book: Reconstruction and Measurement of Landscape Change - Detailed study of the parishes around St Albans 

Book: A New Thraliana and A Newer Thraliana - Detailed history of an important Sandridge family.

Marshal's Wick House

posted early 1900s

(Also known for a time as Sandridge Lodge)

  sandridge-mashalswick-front

Family History: The Thrale Family of Sandridge - includes the text of the 1952 book Historic Sandridge by Giles and Thrale, including the Thrale Family Tree.

Topics: A Survey of Sandridge in 1726 - this lists the owners and occupiers of all the property in the manor at the time.

Web Site: Sandridge District Council Site - Excellent local history and pictures.

Can you identify any of these football players?

See also Hammonds Farm and Eylotts, Sandridge, 19th/20th Century

See Windmill Hill in 1762

Registers
Parish Registers at HALS: Baptisms 1559-1617, 1631-1670, 1689-1967; Marriages 1593-1977; Burials 1558-1657, 1689-1913
Familysearch batch numbers: None
British Vital Records Index: Baptisms 1558-1898; Marriages 1558-1684, 1754-1837
National Burial Index: No entries

HF&PHS have published memorial inscriptions and the 18th century militia lists.

See The Agricultural Workers Strike, Sandridge 1873

Quick links to extra postcard images.
click on thumbnail picture

Sandridge Church

Sandridge Church

Sandridge Church

See also Vital Records

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

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