- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Aldbury is a village and civil parish in the Dacorum District of Hertfordshire, England, near the borders of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the Bulbourne valley close to Ashridge Park. The nearest town is Tring; Tring railway station is located 1 mile east of Tring itself in the parish of Aldbury. Uphill in the narrow vale are the Bridgewater monument and the Ashridge estate.
The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The parish contains a number of manors of historical interest. These are summarised in Wikipedia.
Research Tips
- Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Register Office Block CHR002, County Hall, Hertford SG13 8EJ. Indexes and Catalog
- Hertfordshire Family History Society
- Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- GENUKI outlines information for genealogists for the county. It is also a doorway to pages covering individual parishes.
- Joiner's Marriage Index is available for Hertfordshire on GENUKI. Individual parishes are covered separately.
- Wikimedia Commons has a variety of maps of Hertfordshire, and parts of Hertfordshire, past and present.
- A Vision of Britain through Time is a website produced by the Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth. It outlines all parishes as they were in the 19th century.
- The FamilySearch Wiki lists its collections of church records and vital records along with those provided by other organizations, both commercial and voluntary.
- The commercial website FindMyPast also has a collection of wills and newspaper transcriptions, as well as the "1939 Register" (an equivalent to the census gathered at the beginning of World War 2).
- The hundred of Dacorum: Introduction as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 2, pp 141-142
- The parish of Aldbury ibid, volume 2, pp 143-148
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