Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for REED

REED, a parish, with a village, in Royston district, Herts; 3½ miles S of Royston r. station. Post-town, Royston. Acres, 1, 460. Real property, £1, 765. Pop., 224. Houses, 53. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Barkway, in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £512.* Patron, the Hon. Mrs. V. Harcourt. The church is ancient but good.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Reed CP/AP       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Reed

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