Place:Sarratt, Hertfordshire, England

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Sarratt is a village and civil parish 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England, situated on high ground near the county boundary with Buckinghamshire. The chalk stream, the River Chess, rising north of Chesham, passes near Sarratt in the valley to the west of the village to join the River Colne in Rickmansworth. The valley to the east is dry.

Sarratt is within the Three Rivers District Council jurisdiction which is based in Rickmansworth. The Local Authority takes its name from the confluence of the Chess, the Colne and the River Gade which continues as the River Colne to its confluence with the Thames.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Sarratt from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"SARRATT, a parish, with a village, in Watford [registration] district, Herts; on the river Chess, 3½ miles N N W of Rickmansworth [railway] station. It has a postal pillar-box under Rickmansworth, Herts. Acres: 1,550. Real property: £3,070. Population in 1851: 613; in 1861: 736. Houses: 142. The property is divided among a few. [Sarratt] Hall, [Sarratt] Villa, and Goldington House are chief residences. The making of fancy trimming is carried on; and there is a paper mill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value: £243. Patrons: the Executors of the late J. A. Gordon, Esq. The church is ancient and cruciform; was restored in 1866; and was then found to include some Roman bricks. The churchyard also was found to contain Roman cinerary urns. There are a Baptist chapel, and alms-houses with £21 a year."

Research Tips

• Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Register Office Block CHR002, County Hall, Hertford SG13 8EJ. Indexes and Catalog
• GENUKI on Hertfordshire (pre-1900 individual parishes covered separately)
• Hertfordshire Family History Society
• The parish registers date from 1560 and are held at Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies under reference DP/97.
• The hundred of Cashio: Introduction as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 2, pp 319-322
• The parish of Sarratt ibid, volume 2, pp 438-443
• 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