A History of Preston in Hertfordshire
A History of Preston in Hertfordshire
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Preston History
“Preston” defined
Preston’s manors and parishes
A detailed history to 1700:
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Two maps from 17thC & 18thC
A Roman Road at Preston?
The Preston/Gosmore tumulus
The Nuns of Elstow
Preston history by N Freebody
Mrs Maybrick’s Scrapbook:
Pt 1 Pt 2 Pt 3 Pt 4 Pt 5 Pt 6
Preston people in 17th century
Traditions of Bunyan at Preston
Herts Sessions re: Preston
Visits: 1890s, 1913 and 1970
Parish News 1900 - 1941:
Part 1 Pt 2 Pt 3 Pt 4
Preston and World War Two
Temple Dinsley
Temple Dinsley - an overview
Changing face of TD 1541 - 1907
86 views of T Dinsley 1907-1989
The gardens of Temple Dinsley
The rose garden of T Dinsley
The owners
The Ithells of Temple Dinsley
Thomas Harwood Svt and Esq
The Darton family Part 1
The Darton family Part 2
The Pryor family 1874 - 1901
J Barrington-White 1901 - 1908
The Fenwicks 1908 - 1918
Douglas Vickers 1918 - 1923
Almina Countess of Carnarvon
Princess Helena College
The tenants
Thomas Halsey 1840 -1844
John Weeks 1869 - 1879
Frederick MacMillan
The Cottage/Dower House
Preston Places
The Cottages
An overview of the cottages
Tracing the history of cottages
Back Lane
Chequers Lane - NE side
Chequers Cottages
Church Lane - North side
Crunnells Green/ School Lane
Hill Farm Lane
Hitchwood Cottages, 1 & 2
Holly Cottages
Jacks Hill/Poynders End
Kiln Wood Cottage
(The) Old Forge
Preston Green
Sootfield Green
Spindle Cottage
Swedish Houses
(The) Wilderness
Farms
Castle Farm
Home Farm, Hitchin Road
Minsden Farm/Ladygrove
Offley Holes Farm
Pond Farm
Poynders End Farm
Preston Hill Farm
Temple Farm
Inns
The Chequers
The Red Lion
Community buy out of Red Lion
Red Lion CAMRA award 8/2021
Houses
Hill End
Offley Holes House
Stagenhoe
Wain Wood and Bunyan’s Dell
The ‘lost’ Manor of Welei
The ‘Waste’ of Crunnells Green
The Trees of Preston Green
Straightening Preston Hill Road
The Preston/Gosmore tumulus
Affordable housing 2014/15
Re: Sir E Lutyens and Preston
Preston Life
Agriculture and Ag Labourers
Allotments
Beating the Parish boundaries
Benefit Clubs
Best-kept Herts village (1950s)
Cricket
Crime
(The) Fair, Sheep and Fun-fair
Football
Mobility
Morality
Ponds
(The) Pound
Straw plaiting
Wells and Wind pumps
Religion at Preston
An overview
The two Anglican churches
Photos within St Martins
Parish News: Part1, Pt2, Pt3, Pt4
Minsden Chapel
Nonconformity at Preston
Bunyan’s Chapel
Back St Meeting House, Hitchin
Education
History of Preston’s 3 schools
School mistresses
Attendance and absenteeism
Literacy
Preston School 1900 - 1939
Eugenics and Preston School
Daily Mirror story - ‘Preston
School 100 Years Ago’
Newspaper Stories
Introduction
Preston Hill ‘Murder’/robbery
Parsonage Farm Fire
A breach of promise story
Arson
Assault
Drunkenness
Family Disputes
Farmers and dealers
Poaching
Highway offences
Theft and robbery
Manslaughter
Miscellaneous - Part 1 Part 2
Data
Analysis of 19thC children
Preston births and baptisms
Preston Marriages 1800 - 1900
Marriages St Martins 1909-1985
Deaths at Preston - an overview
Burials 1800 - 1900
Burials, St Martins 1906 - 2009
Censuses
General notes
1801,1807 and 1821 Censuses
1841 Census
Analysis
1851 Census
Analysis
1861 Census
Analysis
1871 Census
Analysis
1881 Census
Analysis
1886 Religious census
1891 Census
Analysis
1901 Census
Analysis
1911 Census
Analysis
1921 Census
Analysis
1939 Register
Militia Lists 1750 - 1785
1811 Preston map and award
1837 Rates book
Manorial records of T Dinsley
Wills of Preston people
Preston people
Preston soldiers of WW1
People of Prestion 1930 - 1951
People 1952 - 85 Pt1, Pt2, Pt3
A photo gallery of Preston folk
A sad suicide in 1933
An odd incident c1865
Althams Crunnells Grn House
Armstrong family
Ashton family
Barker, Rose - schoolmistress
Blanchards of Rose Cottage
Cook, Arthur of Stagenhoe
Cook, Rebecca Preston poems
Dawson, Mr and Mrs RDJW
Freebody, Nina - historian
Gribble, Norah: Mrs Seebohm
Gunning, S of Langley End Cot
Fox twins - poachers
Hall, Samuel
Hinde, Robert: Preston Castle
Hine, Reginald - Hitchin
Jenkins, Cecil and Maggie
Jenkins, Herbie of Castle Farm
Middleditch, Dick
Newell, Leonard and Eileen
Pedder, William 1837 - 1919
Peters family
Peters, David - recollections
Phillips, Nurse: first midwife
Priestley, (Sir) Joseph Child
Pryor, Armigel
Pryor, Ralston and Geoffrey
Sansom, Chris - historian
Scott family of Church Road
Seebohms of Poynders End
Smith, Sidney 4 Chequers Cot
Soldene. Emily - musical star
Soldene, Emily and Preston
Soto, Sam at Preston 1969/72
Stanley, William (Bill) and Rose
Stevens, Simon - teacher
Sunderland, Robert memories
Swain, early family
Swain tree, early
Swain tree, early - notes
Swain tree, late
Swain, James 1824 - 1898
Swain, Charles and descdnts
Swain, Stephen
Thrussell, ‘Blind Bob’.
Turl, Mary - postwoman
Waller family, builders
Whitbread, Chalkley: farmer
The Books
In magazines and on screen
Family Tree magazine
Preston Victorian School
The lost manor of Welei
Creating a family history website
Writing a local history book
Using an expert for family history
Family Tree Monthly
Fairey Tales
The Villager
Re: Preston
Hertfordshire Life
Re: Preston
Hitchin Comet
Hitchin History Day
Preston in film, TV and radio
A History of Preston in Hertfordshire
(Scroll to bottom of old Site Map)
The History of Preston in
Hertfordshire
1) Details of the book
2) The book launch and signing
St Martin’s, Preston in
Hertfordshire
Details of the booklet
New in October 2021
1) Sir Joseph Child Priestley
and Tatmore Place
2) Three new books that feature
Preston and its folk