Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SANDRIDGE

SANDRIDGE, a parish, with a village, in St. Albans district, Herts; 2½ miles S by W of Wheathampstead r.station, and 2¾ N N E of St. Albans. It has a post-office under St. Albans. Acres, 5, 766. Real property, £7, 959. Pop., 833. Houses, 151. The property is divided among a few. A large tract is disposed in sheep-walk, and oftenused by cricket clubs. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £313.* Patron, Earl Spencer. The church is good. There is a parochial school. The Duchess of Marlborough, born in 1660, was a native.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Sandridge CP       Sandridge CP/Ch/AP       St Albans RegD/PLU       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Sandridge

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