Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire Genealogy

England   Hertfordshire   Hertfordshire Parishes

Parish History
AYOTT-ST. LAWRENCE, or Ayott-Magna, a parish in Hatfield district, Herts; near the river Maran, 2¾ miles WNW of Welwyn r. station. Post Town, Welwyn. Acres, 747. Real property, £1,568. Pop., 122. Houses, 23. The property is not much divided. The manor belonged anciently to King Harold; and belongs now to the Lydes of Ayott Park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £180.* Patron, Lionel Lyde, Esq. The church was rebuilt, in 1778, at the expense of Sir Lionel Lyde, in the Grecian style, after a design by Revett. The previous church still stands as a ruin, and contains some curious monuments.

From: Wilson's, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Probate records
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