- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Aldenham is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-east of Watford. The civil parish also contains the large and affluent village of Radlett which is 2 miles northeast of the village of Aldenham. The parish was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. In Saxon times the majority of the land was owned by the abbots of Westminster Abbey.
In addition to Radlett, the parish contains the hamlets of Round Bush, Letchmore Heath and Patchetts Green.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Aldenham. Short descriptions of the hamlets.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Radlett.
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 Cashio: Introduction as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 2, pp 319-322
- The parish of Aldenham ibid, volume 2, pp 149-161
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