Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CODICOTE

CODICOTE, a village and a parish in Hitchin district, Herts. The village stands near the river Maran and the Great Northern railway, 2 miles N by W of Welwyn r. station, and 8 S by E of Hitchin; has a post office under Welwyn; and was once a market-town. The parish comprises 2, 671 acres. Real property, £4, 677. . Pop., 1, 227. Houses, 229. The property is subdivided.Lodge and the Node are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Rochester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. St. Giles' church is old but good; and All Saints' was built in 1868. There are national schools and charities £14.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Codicote AP/CP       Hitchin RegD/PLU       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Codicote

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