Markyate

or

Market Street

Until 1877 the village of Market Street, or Markyate, was in three separate ecclesiastical parishes - Studham, Caddington and Flamstead and became one civil parish in 1897. It is in the modern Borough of Dacorum

Map from Hemel Hempstead Rural District Official Guide (1971)

Marykate (or Market Street) is a village and parish, 4 miles south-east from Dunstable, on the Roman Road (Watling Street), from London to Birmingham, 8 miles from St Albans and 4 from Redbourn, in the Hemel Hempstead Division of the county, Hemel Hempstead petty sessional division and union and the hundred of Dacorum; it was formed into an ecclesiastical district out of the parishes of Studham (Beds) and Flamstead and Caddington (Herts) in 1877, and is in the rural deanery, archdeaconry and diocese of St Albans. By a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board, dated Sept. 30th, 1897, under the provisions of the "Local Government Act, 1894," Markyate was formed into a civil parish out of a portion of Caddington parish (Herts), the hamlet of Humbershoe (Beds), a detached portion of the parish of Houghton Regis (known as Buckwood Stubbs) (Beds), and a portion of the parish of Flamstead (Herts). The portion of Houghton Regis parish and the hamlet of Humbershoe were under the above order transferred to the county of Hertford; the whole of the civil parish is now in that county.

The village is supplied with gas by the Markyate Gas Co. Ltd. and with water by the Hemel Hempstead Rural District Council. A system of drainage was laid down in 1912. The church of St John the Baptist, in the park of Markyate Cell, was enlarged by Joseph Howell esq. in 1811; it is a small unpretending building, consisting of chancel, nave and a western turret containing one bell: the chancel was added in 1892 at a cost of £800: a new organ, the gift of Mrs. Francis W. Adye in memory of her late husband, was added in 1911: at the east end of the church is a stained glass window given by Arthur Collings Wells esq. in memory of his son, Lieut-Col. J. S. Collings Wells V.C., D.S.O. of the Bedfordshire regiment and other Markyate men who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918. The register dates from the year 1877. ...

Kelly's Directory for Hertfordshire, 1922

Cutting hay inn a field above London Road, early 1900
from advanced publicity for "The Book of Markyate"

Map of Beds/Herts Border in 1803

Caddington

Flamstead

Studham

See The Importance of Understanding Administrative Boundaries 

St John the Baptist

Markyate Cell

SYMINGTON, 19th century

WHEELER, early 19th century

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