- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
Northchurch is a civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. It was originally known as Berkhamsted St. Mary but became known as 'Northchurch' indicating that it was the northern of the two churches at Berkhamsted. Being slightly removed from the other Berkhamsted (Berkhamsted St Peter), Northchurch developed as a separate village. However, development in the twentieth century has now brought Northchurch within the urban area of Berkhamsted, physically joining the two ancient parts of Berkhamsted. That said, Northchurch remains administratively separate from Berkhamsted with its own parish council.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Northchurch.
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 Northchurch ibid, volume 2, pp 245-250
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