In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Great Munden like this:
MUNDEN (Great), a parish in Ware district, Herts; 2 miles W by S of Braughing r. station, and 6½ N of Ware. It contains the hamlet of Munden-Furnival, and parts of the hamlets of Dane-End and Haultwick; and its post town is Ware. Acres, 3, 352. Real property, £5, 124. Pop. in 1851, 554; in 1861, 457. ...
Houses, 98. The property is divided among a few. Rowne a nunnery was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by the Duke of Brittany; but went to extinction before the time of Henry VI. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £705.* Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is partly Norman, but mainly decorated English, with some interpolated windows of later English; went into a ruinous condition; was restored, throughout the body, in 1866; and has a tower in stilla dilapidated state. There is a parochial school.
Great Munden through time
Great Munden is now part of East Hertfordshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Hertfordshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Great Munden itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Great Munden in East Hertfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Date accessed: 02nd November 2024
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