Ayot station was built in 1877 and stopping services were established to provide new amenities for the parish, which were destined to last only for the equivalent of one lifetime. The first show to be held in a marquee on Ayot Green was the 1957 autumn show on Saturday 21 September, when there were 350 entries. Various trades were established at Ayot Green to service the Great North Road in C18th and C19th. The Anglo-Saxon system of mutual pledging and mutual responsibility gradually evolved into the system of parish constables, which continued in Hertfordshire until 1841. Edwin Prodgers senior, on whose death in 1861 it passed to his son Edwin. (64%). The combined estate passed to Lionel Ames’ eldest son Lionel Neville Frederick Ames (later Ames-Lyde) (1850-83), who died without issue and bequeathed his holdings to his brother Gerard Vivian Ames (1852-99). Only one week after arriving in Sydney, on 26 November 1824 he sailed on the ‘Sally’ up the coast of New South Wales to Port Macquarie, where he was to be a ‘government employee’ for the next seven years until the anniversary of his sentence on 4 March 1831. He was a MHK in 1679, Chaplain of Ballure in 1688, in 1690 ‘Parr’s Abstract’ was published which was John Parr’s account of the laws of the Island at that time, he was then Vicar of Rushen from 1691 to 1700, a Deemster in 1693 and the Rector of Ballaugh from 1700 until his death in 1713. In contrast to the one mention of Ayot St. Peter, Ayot St. Lawrence is mentioned twice in Domesday. Henry Jephson seems generally to have been rather conventional; he was born in 1839 in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, and matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, on 3 December 1857 when he was 18. A tower 72 feet high was attached to the north side of the chancel. In 1655 there was a national collection for the Protestants of Piedmont which, in Hertfordshire, raised £754 14s. In the aftermath of the loss of the Pearson church there was a great sense of urgency about the provision of a replacement – although services continued to be held in the newly built schoolroom. The early register, together with many other records, are deposited for safe keeping at the Hertfordshire County Record Office. The A1(M) is the source of very considerable noise pollution which affects much of the parish, particularly when the wind is from an easterly direction. In 1837 John and Elizabeth built a small Wesleyan chapel, which adjoined their home and is still visible as part of 37 Ayot Green. The eldest son of John Halsey was another John, who was still living at 39 Bridge Road in his 90s when the garden city was inaugurated in 1920. It is tempting to think that George Wardall was in some way related to the Wardill family who bought properties at Ayot Green in 1913, but impossible to prove. 0d. Half way through this period he apparently felt the need to acquire a country house, but even today Ayot St Lawrence can hardly be described as conveniently close to the City for commuting, and in 1723 the journey between the two would have been arduous. It could signify a wild uncultivated place, or a marshy place or an eyot or isle, or a corruption of the French word haut to signify that it stood high amongst the woods. This may relate right back to the Black Death plague of 1348 or perhaps to an outbreak of smallpox which occurred at Ayot St. Peter in 1770. 59) abutting the spinney, which was part of the glebe and on which the Grange and the Old Rectory have subsequently been built, was called Strattons Field. In 1561 Edward, Earl of Derby appointed Gilbert Parr a Commissioner with the responsibility of making regulations concerning Peel Castle and Castle Rushen and from 1635 to 1643 Richard Parr was the Bishop of Sodor and Man. The figure for 1981 had to be adjusted from the return figure of 147 to take account of the fact that the boundary of the civil parish was altered with effect from 1 April 1986 by the Welwyn Hatfield (Parishes) Order 1986. Cassey’s Directory for 1864 records that letters arrived from Welwyn at 7 a.m. and were dispatched at 7 p.m. Kelly’s Directory for 1899 names George Draper as the sub-postmaster and records that letters arrived from Welwyn at 8 a.m. and were dispatched at 6.50 p.m. In 1838 the land in question was owned by the 2nd Viscount Melbourne and occupied by two cottages, so there was both a change of owner and some demolition between 1838 and 1871. She was baptised with two sisters and a brother on 19 January 1801 at St. Bride’s, Fleet Street. There has been a golf course at Welwyn Garden City for many years. The current boundaries of the civil parish of Ayot St. Peter are shown in the section of this website entitled “Ayot St Peter today”. The Lord Lieutenant of the county, David Bowes-Lyon, attended a ceremony on Ayot Green at which the winner’s sign was unveiled. The ecclesiastical profession continued into the next generation of Parr’s, which included Robert (d.1729) who was the Vicar of Arbory from 1713 to 1723, and Rector of Bride from 1723 until his death in 1729. It stayed in place (where the lanes divide) for a year. The grant made it possible for each household in Ayot St Peter to receive a complimentary hard-back copy in 2000. She was a ship of 530 tons built at Lancaster. John Wells was one of only nine owner occupiers in the parish in 1838. As a result, Lemsford was by-passed, Brickwall Hill ran in a straight line from Valley Road to the Waggoners and the alignment of Digswell Hill from the Red Lion to Welwyn was improved. Edwin Prodgers senior, who was living at Ayot Bury as rector in 1849. She left an estate of £9,059 19s. Each year a parish would appoint one of its number to be parish constable for a year. In addition to Hall, Hunter and Jerome, Justin Anderson, Anthony Gill and London Perrantes also spent time this offseason working with Altizer in Charlottesville. The bell from the mortuary chapel (which had been furnished by Charles Willes Wilshere, DL, JP, of The Frythe in 1876) was rehung in the new church of St. Michael and All Angels at Borehamwood, of which Princess Margaret laid the foundation on 23 October 1954. The petty sessions were, until 1848, held in any suitable private premises. Charles Wells was granted a ticket-of-leave on 1 May 1853 – the day after his arrival. Henry Jephson with this intriguing caption: ‘it is said he was a bush ranger in Australia before taking holy orders.’ Bushrangers were, of course, criminals and their most famous exemplar was Ned Kelly. In the old churchyard there is a headstone recording that Elizabeth Faulkner, spinster, daughter and only child of Joseph John and Elizabeth Faulkner, died on 31 January 1844 aged 35 and that Elizabeth Faulkner, wife of Joseph Faulkner, died on 17 November 1847 aged 70. There is land for 6 ploughs. Henry Jephson, the recently installed rector, was able to save the registers and the church plate (including a chalice and paten, each bearing a London hallmark for 1638 and still in use on important occasions). The Act of Parliament sanctioning the Dunstable branch was obtained in 1856 and construction was finished by 1860. They were married on 21 October 1828 at St. Matthew’s, Brixton, and consequently he came into a considerable fortune. Presumably unknown to all but those who needed to know, work of the highest secrecy went on just to the north of the parish at The Frythe – ingenious weapons were designed and produced there at what was Station 9 of the Special Operations Executive, intended for use by (for instance) agents parachuted or flown into occupied France. The font and the bells were the gift of the rector’s uncle, Dr. Henry Jephson (1798-1878), who also paid for his nephew’s education at Cheltenham College and Oxford University. Aerial photographs have revealed a number of potentially interesting anomolies in the parish. Robert Parr who was the Vicar-General also had sons who held religious posts in Arbory and other parts of the Island. It seems likely that most of the houses facing Ayot Green in 1838 had been built only in the previous 100 years since the establishment of the turnpike trust. A telegraph pole which was supporting the barn crashed through the side of the farmhouse and landed on the owners’ bed. People engaged in trade were attracted to the non-conformist churches and it is probably no accident that by 1822 there was a Wesleyan chapel attached to a cottage in owner occupation at Ayot Green. The information was collected in the Domesday Survey of 1086 on the orders of King William I (the Conqueror) but, according to some authorities, the Domesday Book itself (summarising and collating the collected information) was not written until shortly after the accession of King William II (Rufus) in 1087. The Ayots Women’s Institute was founded on 2 December 1969. His widow, the Countess Anne, kept the living until 1853 when she sold it to Rev. George, Lord Mountstephen (1829-1921) was tenant of Brocket Hall from 1892 until his death. Until quite recently there was a postbox outside 6 Ayot Green, but after the shop closed and the property changed hands the postbox was relocated to its current site beside the new bridge over the A1(M). She took 128 days to reach Sydney by way of the Cape of Good Hope, arriving on 19 November 1824. As we shall see, there was a violent thunderstorm on Friday 10 July 1874 which destroyed Ayot St. Peter church. The journey time to Hatfield was 10 minutes and it took 6 minutes to reach Wheathampstead in the other direction. It was an early example with the letters VR on it. The field between Sunset Cottage and Melbourne Stud is known to have been the site of a Belgic settlement, and Belgic Iron Age pottery and a silvered brooch with yellow paste cabochon were found at Linces Farm. Edward Humphrey lived next door to the Ephraves and Thomas Wells lived at 16 Ayot Green. For the most part these churches were of post frame and clapboard construction, with reed thatch roofs. It was converted for use as a mortuary chapel but was itself demolished as recently as 1954. The school at the rectory may have been held initially either in the main house (which seems rather unlikely) or in the lodge which formerly stood beside the entrance from School Lane. It has been suggested that from this point to Welwyn it may have followed the line of an ancient trackway which passed through Warren Wood and past the old churchyard. Capt. What did the people of the parish do with their lives? We have, of course, already encountered Rev. 8d. It was made and signed by ‘Robt. William Kelly died in 1909 and in 1920 his son sold Parville to the tenant who was a member of the Cooil’s, a renowned Arbory family. In the old section there are thick external walls, large chimney stacks at the gable ends and an eighteenth century staircase located in the centre, although the balustrade is modern. These included the construction of a temporary bridge just to the south of the line of the permanent structure. The passengers moved strangely towards one another as they shattered over large bumps. There was another very violent gale on Thursday 25 January 1990. In his massive History of Hertfordshire, John Edwin Cussans gives the area as 1,097 acres. Like the two Charities of John Henry Peacock, Lord Brocket’s Charity for the Poor still existed in 2000. The Ayots WI, like the Horticultural Society, brings together the people of the two Ayots. Whether any of the men provided by Sir John lived in Ayot St. Peter is not known but it is obviously a possibility. The other daughter, called Caroline after her mother, married a captain in the Austrian navy called Giovanni Battista Giacometti on 15 February 1862 but the couple were divorced in 1871. In 1845 a cross-country railway from Luton to Chelmsford and Maldon, which would have run through both Ayot parishes, was proposed but it failed to go ahead for want of capital. Considerable damage was done to trees by this storm, which is commemorated by a tree planted near 3 Ayot Green. Then on his death it passed to his sister Emily Mary Lamb (1787-1869). invested in Reduced 3% Consols to produce £10 per annum for education. On 12 January 2009 the church and churchyard were registered with title absolute and title no. The estate which came with the house represented almost all the land comprising the parish of Ayot St Lawrence. Lord Cowper’s deed of grant was dated 15 November 1871. 0d.,which he had reported to the turnpike trust as missing.