- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Bovingdon is a large village in the Dacorum District of Hertfordshire, England, four miles southwest of Hemel Hempstead, and is also a civil parish. Within the District it forms the largest part of the ward of Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield, which had a population of 3,819 at the 2001 census.
The village is medieval in origin but it has expanded significantly since the 1940s. It now has a large commuter population. The old parts of the village are mostly around the High Street and the Green.
There are two churches in the village. The Baptist Church and the Anglican Church. The Baptist church started as a Wesleyan Methodist Church and changed to Baptist. St. Lawrence Church (Church of England) was built in 1845 by Talbot Bury. The churchyard is the second largest in Hertfordshire and includes an avenue of clipped yew trees.
Bovingdon was, until 1866, a chapelry in the parish of Hemel Hempstead. Chipperfield and Flaunden were formerly neighbouring parishes.
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 Hemel Hempstead with Bovingdon and Flaunden ibid, volume 2, pp 215-230
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