Place:Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, England

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Much Hadham is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire District of Hertfordshire, England, formerly known as Great Hadham. It is situated on the B1004 road, midway between Ware and Bishop's Stortford. At the 2001 census the population recorded was 1,994. Perry Green is a hamlet in the parish.

Adjacent to the church is Much Hadham Palace that was the country home of the Bishops of London for 800 years. It may be that the Tudor dynasty began here, for Henry V's widow, Catherine of Valois, gave birth here (or at the similarly named Hadham in Bedfordshire) to Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, whose son, later Henry VII of England, won the throne at Bosworth Field.

Research Tips

• Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Register Office Block CHR002, County Hall, Hertford SG13 8EJ. Indexes and Catalog
• GENUKI on Hertfordshire (individual parishes covered separately)
• Hertfordshire Family History Society
• Edwinstree Hundred is not covered in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire as provided by British History Online.
• 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