Brickendon

Brickendon

Brickendon is a village in the civil parish of Brickendon Liberty in the district of East Hertfordshire about 3 miles south of the county town Hertford, and is served by Bayford railway station.

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 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 the Domesday Book the name appears as Brichendone. The manor of Brickendon was held by the canons and later the monks of Waltham Abbey (abbey), Essex, from about 1060 until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Henry II made Brickendon a liberty in about 1174/84 granting the abbot freedom from certain taxes normally due to the crown.

The former manor house at Brickendonbury was used as a spy training centre during World War II 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.

External Links

* [http://www.brickendon-liberty.org.uk/ Brickendon Liberty community website]
* [http://www.compassion-in-business.co.uk/brickendon/ A history of Brickendon]
* [http://www.thefarmersboy.net/ The Farmer's Boy]

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