| Brickendon | |
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  Brickendon Location withinHertfordshire | |
| Population | 573 (2011 Census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TL322074 |
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| District | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HERTFORD |
| Postcode district | SG13 |
| Police | Hertfordshire |
| Fire | Hertfordshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
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Brickendon is a village in thecivil parish of Brickendon Liberty in the district ofEast Hertfordshire about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the county townHertford, and is served byBayford railway station.
Centred on a traditional village green and a village pub,The Farmer's Boy, there is an active community with several clubs and activities. The parish (rather than just the village) has won several awards in the Hertfordshire Village of the Year contest in recent years.
The name is said to have come from a Saxon by the name of Bricca who laid claim to the hill site, the Saxon word 'don' meaning a hill; thus Bricca's Hill. In theDomesday Book the name appears as Brichendone. The manor of Brickendon was held by the canons and later the monks ofWaltham Abbey, Essex, from about 1060 until theDissolution of the Monasteries.Henry II created theliberty of Brickendon in about 1174/84 which granted the abbot freedom from certain taxes normally due to the crown.
The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Cross andSt Alban, was built in 1932 on land and with funds donated by Constance Demain Saunders and her mother Minnie Kingsley. It is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Bayford within the Hartford Hundred West group of parishes.
Brickendon Grange was built by Benjamin Cherry in 1859 and is now a golf club designed by CK Cotton. Fanshaws mansion, built in 1885 by Henry Wilson Demain Saunders, is now the headquarters of theInstitute of the Motor Industry. The second series ofCatweazle was filmed around Brickendon in 1970.
The former manor house at Brickendonbury was used as a spy training centre duringWorld War II as Station XVII of theSpecial Operations Executive (SOE) and is now home to the Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre of theMalaysian Rubber Board.
Brickendon has three tiers of local government, at parish, district, and county level: Brickendon Liberty Parish Council,East Hertfordshire District Council, andHertfordshire County Council.
The name of the moderncivil parish is "Brickendon Liberty", referencing the area's former status as a parish liberty. The liberty of Brickendon was deemed to be part of the parish ofAll Saints, Hertford, but appointed its own overseers of the poor. Brickendon was included in the HertfordPoor Law Union from 1835 with its own representative on theBoard of Guardians.[2] As such, Brickendon was deemed to be a separate civil parish from 10 August 1866 under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1866. The civil parish of Brickendon at that time stretched from Brickendon village in the south right up into the town of Hertford in the north, with Castle Street, West Street and All Saints' Church all being within the civil parish of Brickendon, which was partly inside and partly outside the borough of Hertford.[3][4] In 1891 the parish had a population of 1007.[5]
Under theLocal Government Act 1894, parishes which straddled borough boundaries were split into separate parishes inside and outside the borough. On 4 December 1894 the parish of Brickendon was therefore abolished and split to form two parishes called "Brickendon Rural" and "Brickendon Urban". Brickendon Rural was included in theHertford Rural District. Brickendon Urban had no parish council; it was governed directly by Hertford Borough Council. On 30 September 1900 Brickendon Urban and all the other civil parishes within the borough were abolished to become a single parish called Hertford.[6]
On 1 April 1929 the civil parish of Brickendon Liberty was created when Brickendon Rural merged with the neighbouring parish ofSt John Rural, which had been a sparsely populated rural parish created in 1894 from the parts of the old parish of St John, Hertford which lay outside the borough.[7][8] On 1 April 1935 parts ofBroxbourne,Hoddesdon Rural andWormley were transferred to Brickendon Liberty when these parishes were abolished. On 1 April 1939 part of Brickendon Liberty was transferred toLittle Amwell.[9]
Brickendon Liberty remained in Hertford Rural District until that district was abolished in 1974 to become part ofEast Hertfordshire.
The County of Hertford (Hertford) Confirmation Order, 1900, effective 30 September 1900
Ministry of Health Order No. 72,680. The Hertfordshire (Brickendon Liberty) Confirmation Order, 1928, effective 1 April 1929
