Flaunden Village
Flaunden Village, 1940s
Flaunden village history
Flaunden is a small village in Hertfordshire, next door to Bovingdon.
It has remained relatively unchanged, with many of the houses being hundreds of years old.
The original site of the village was one and a half mile to the south, in the Chess river
valley. A small church was here, built in the 1200s, and a few cottages. Nothing now
remains of this, the church now being rubble. The village probably migrated up the hill
because the valley was prone to flooding.
The church of St Mary Magdalene was built in 1838, near to the centre of the present
village. The villagers were originally workers on the Estate of Lord Chesham, who lived at
the nearby Latimer House.
A Roman villa stood near the old village, at Latimer, with a Roman Road passing through
the present village on it's way through Bovingdon to Hemel Hempstead.
Kelly's Post Office Directory of 1855
BOVINGDON
and FLAUNDEN entry
A business directory giving a description of the area, with some local residents and
traders.
Flaunden Church Records (Burgin Extracts)
The church records survive back to the early 1700s, when the old church was in use, although older records are available as "Bishop's Transcripts". The current church records date back to 1838.
BAPTISMS
MARRIAGES
BURIALS
(1841-1902)
These records were copied from the current burials book of the church. I have only
included information older than 100 years here, although newer information is available.
1841
CENSUS (Complete census transcript)
I transcribed this census from the microfilm copy kept at Hemel Hempstead library. I have
tried to keep the style and spellings as close to the original as possible. Some of the
handwriting was very faint and hard to decipher, so there may have been some mistakes
made!
Burgin Extracts:
1841
1851
1861 - UNAVAILABLE - NO COPY EXISTS AT PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE
1871
1881
1891
1901
Flaunden Photos
Some old photos from around Flaunden village
Map of Flaunden, 1930
Further Information:
Hertfordshire Militia Lists - Flaunden & Sarratt, No 62 - Hertfordshire Family History Society (1996)
Flaunden, The Past, present & Future, The People of Flaunden (2001)