Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HYDE (WEST)

HYDE (WEST), a chapelry in Rickmansworth parish, Herts; on the river Colne, at the boundary with Middlesex, 2½ miles SW of Rickmansworth r. station. It was constituted in 1846; and its post town is Rickmansworth, Herts. Pop., 466. Houses, 93. Chalk pits are here; and a copper mill was formerly on the Colne. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Rochester. Valne, £100. Patron, the Bishop of Rochester.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Rickmansworth AP/CP       Hertfordshire AncC
Place names: HYDE     |     HYDE WEST     |     WEST HYDE
Place: West Hyde

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