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ADVOWSON: Bayford Church, which is mentioned as early as 1222, was a chapelry pertaining to the rectory of Essendon until 1867, and the advowson therefore follows that of Essendon, In 1867 it was made a vicarage in the presentation of the lord of the manor, and was endowed under the Common Fund. In 1366 the people of Bayford appealed for the right of sepulture at their own chapel, owing to the inconvenience of having to go to Essendon, They stated that the distance between their chapel and Essendon Church was about 3 miles and that the vill of Little Berkhampstead lay between them. The bodies had to be carried past a water mill on a stream of which one bank was in Berkhampstead and the other in Essendon, wherefore the carts going with bodies are often brought to grief in the river, and the people attending annoyed with attachments in passing through Berkhampstead, |
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| October 2008 | Page updated | |
| June 2011 | Link to Bayfordbury |