Biography george stortford

A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 3.

Biography george stortford: When George Abbott was born on

Originally published by Victoria County History, London, This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved. Stortford xi—xvi cent. Bishop's Stortford is a parish of 3, acres, of which 13 are water. Nearly one half of the area is arable land, permanent grass is rather less than a third, whilst woods and plantations only cover about acres.

Hoggate's Wood to the north of the town, part of Bloodhound's Wood, High Wood, Great Plantains Wood on the west of the parish and part of Birchanger Wood on the east are now the only woods of any size. An inclosure award was made for the parish in under an Act of The navigable river Stort flows through the parish from north to south, forming for a little way the north-eastern boundary between Stortford and Birchanger.

The parish is intersected by the road from London to Cambridge which runs north and south, and crossing this from east to west is a road partly coinciding with the Roman Stane Street, which connects Stortford with Great Dunmow on the east and Little Hadham and Braughing on the west, whilst a branch from it to the south runs through Standon to Ermine Street.

Many fragments of Roman pottery have been found on the brickfield owned by Mr.