Place:St. Michael Rural (parish), Hertfordshire, England

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Name	St. Michael Rural (parish)
Alt names	Appspond	source: settlement in parish
	Breakspears	source: settlement in parish
	Bushwood	source: settlement in parish
	Childwickbury	source: settlement in parish
	Gorhambury	source: settlement in parish
	Potters Crouch	source: settlement in parish
Type	Civil parish
Coordinates	51.751°N 0.386°W
Located in	Hertfordshire, England (1894 - )
See also	St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England	municipal borough of which it was part 1835-1894
	St. Albans Rural, Hertfordshire, England	rural district of which it was part 1894-1974
	St. Albans (district), Hertfordshire, England	district municipality covering the area since 1974

the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

St. Albans St. Michael's was an ancient parish. Part of the parish was within the Municipal Borough of St. Albans until 1894, when it was split to create St. Michael Urban Parish within the borough and St. Michael Rural Parish outside the town to the west. St. Michael Rural became part of St. Albans Rural District.

Parts of St. Michael Rural were transferred into the borough of St. Albans in 1913 (138 acres) and in 1935 (890 acres).

On 1 April 1974 (when district municipalities were introduced) the parish of St. Michael Rural was split with part going to the unparished area in Dacorum District and the remainder becoming the parish of St Michael in the City of St Albans District.

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Geography

St. Michael has been since 1974 a civil parish and part of the City and District of St. Albans in Hertfordshire, England. The population in 2001 was 494.

The present parish comprises a wholly rural area to the west of St Albans and is bounded on its western side by the town of Hemel Hempstead. The parish is bisected east-west by the M1 motorway.

Settlement is dispersed across a number of small and isolated hamlets (all redirected here):

Appspond
Breakspears
Bushwood
Childwickbury
Gorhambury
Potters Crouch

From 1894 to 1974 the parish was known as St. Michael Rural and was located in St. Albans Rural District.

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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 Cashio: Introduction as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 2, pp 319-322
The parish of St. Michael's ibid, volume 2, pp 323-328
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

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