Sources of Information on

Aldbury

The book, Aldbury, the Open Village, by Jean Davis, describes life and changes in the village in the early 19th century. Because of the availability of good contemporary maps and diaries it provides a particularly vivid account of the the issues which faced the village folk - and for this reason is of interest to anyone who is interested in everyday rural life in Hertfordshire 200 years ago.  More recent people and events are covered by Jean's book, Aldbury People: 1885-1945, and Ruth, Lady Crauford's book Country Women at War which relates to life in the village during the Second World War. Jean Davis has also produced A Visitor's Guide to Aldbury which is still on sale in the Village Stores.

The book, A Hertfordshire Valley, includes a well-written chapter on Aldbury, some good pictures, and an addition chapter on Stocks House. There are also extensive references in the book, Dacorum - within Living Memory. The village is included in Nigel Goose's volume, Population ... in 1851: The Berkhamsted Region, which includes a transcript of the 1851 census.

There is a chapter on Victor Lownes and his connection with Stocks House in More Tring Personalities. The Pretended Marriage tells the story behind a major 17th century court case.

The village green with the old houses round it, its pond and the stocks, have attracted tourists for generations and as a result virtually every popular book on the County of Hertfordshire, or on the Chiltern Hills has included something about Aldbury, together with at least one picture of the stocks and the pond!

A book has been published on the Memorial Inscriptions in the Church and Churchyard.