Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WIDFORD

WIDFORD, a parish, with a village, in Ware district, Herts; near the Buntingford railway, 4 miles E by N of Ware. It has a post-office under Ware, and a r. station. Acres, 1,137. Real property, £2,509. Pop., 456. Houses, 111. The property is much subdivided. There are two barrows. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £290.* Patron, W. P. Hamond, Esq. A new church was built in 1862. Charities, £28.


(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: Widford CP/AP       Ware RegD/PLU       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Widford

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