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LEAVESDEN, a hamlet in Watford parish, and a chapelry partly also in St. Stephen parish, Herts. The hamlet lies between the Northwestern railway and the Watford and St. Albans railway, 2½ miles N of Watford. The chapelry was constituted in 1853. Post town, Watford. Pop., 756. Houses, 164. Pop. of the Watford section, 538. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £116. * Patron, the Vicar of Watford. The church is modern.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | St Stephen CP/AP Hertfordshire AncC |
Place: | Leavsden |
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