Brickendon
| Brickendon | |
| Hertfordshire | |
|---|---|
 Brickendon Green | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL322074 |
| Location: | 51°45’0"N, 0°4’60"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Hertford |
| Postcode: | SG13 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Hertfordshire |
Brickendon is a village in Hertfordshire, in the civil parish of Brickendon Liberty. It is found 3 miles south of the county town, Hertford.
Centred around a traditional village green and a friendly 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 of the village is said to mean "Bricca's Hill" (Briccan dun), presumably named from an otherwise unknown Anglo-Saxon farmer or chieftain. In the Domesday Book the name appears as Brichendone.
The manor of Brickendon was held by the canons (later the monks) of Waltham Abbey in Essex, from about 1060 until the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII. Henry II created the liberty of Brickendon at some time between about 1174 and 1184, which granted the abbot of Waltham freedom from certain taxes normally due to the crown, and this has given a name to the parish.
The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Cross and St 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 the Institute of the Motor Industry.
The former manor house at Brickendonbury was used as a spy training centre during Second World War as Station XVII of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and is now home to the Tan Abdul Razak Research Centre of the Malaysian Rubber Board.
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