Great Gaddesden

In 1973 Great Gaddesden became part of the new borough of Dacorum, which is named after an ancient Saxon hundred of the same name.

Adjacent Parishes:  Berkhamsted, Flamstead, Hemel Hempstead, Little Gaddesden, Northchurch, Pitstone (Bucks - including Nettleden), Studham (Bedfordshire)

Great Gaddesden was in the Dacorum Hundred and the Hemel Hempstead Union.

Map from Hemel Hempstead Rural District Official Guide (1971)

Great Gaddesden Published by White, Post Office, Water End Posted 1908

The Book A Hertfordshire Valley includes a chapter on Great Gaddesden

Visit the Web Site  Gade Valley Discovery Walk

See Population Movements in Rural Hertfordshire for information on where the people living in Great Gaddesden were born in the 1881 census.

St John the Baptist

Great Gaddesden Place

Water End

If you know of other books, websites, etc, relating to this place, please tell me.