Place:Kimpton, Hertfordshire, England

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Kimpton is a village in Hertfordshire, England, six miles south of Hitchin and four miles from Harpenden and Luton.

The village lies along the valley of a dried-up river bed and is about one mile long. Some of the houses on the High Street date back to the 16th century, but most are 19th and early 20th century. Behind the High Street are two large housing estates built in the 1970s.

Kimpton's church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul.

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
• The hundred of Hitchin: Introduction and map as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 3, pp 1-2
• The parish of Kimpton ibid, volume 3, pp 29-33
• 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