In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Digswell like this:
DIGSWELL, a village and a parish in Hatfield district, Herts. The village stands on the river Maran, adjacent to the Great Northern railway, 1 mile SSE of Welwyn r. station, and 4 N of Hatficld. It was known at Domesday as Dichelswelle; and it came to be a market-town, but has declined. The parish comprises 1, 623 acres; and its post town is Welwyn. ...
Real property, £2, 422. Pop., 243. Houses, 43. The property is divided among a few. Digswell House belonged once to the Peryents; and passed to the Cowpers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £393.* Patron, the Rev. G. E. Prescot. The church is good; and there is a free school.
Digswell through time
Digswell is now part of Welwyn Hatfield district. Click here for graphs and data of how Welwyn Hatfield has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Digswell itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Digswell, in Welwyn Hatfield and Hertfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3143
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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