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Wall Hall, originally known as Aldenham Abbey, is a country house at Aldenham in Hertfordshire, England. The main house and several ancillary buildings are Grade II listed. The gardens and parkland are also on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.
17 feb 2000 · In 1812 the estate, by then known as Wall Hall, was sold to Admiral Sir Charles Maurice Pole (d 1822), MP for Plymouth, who renamed the property Aldenham Abbey.
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- Manors
- Church
- Advowson
- The Foundation of Richard Platt.
- Church Estate.
From an early date there seem to havebeen constant disputes regarding themanor of ALDENHAM between theabbot of St. Albans and the abbot of Westminster. Bya charter of somewhat doubtful authenticity, it wouldappear that in 785 King Offa granted to Thorney orWestminster Abbey 10 casata of land in Aldenhamof which the bounds are given in Anglo-Saxon; ...
The church ofST. JOHN THEBAPTIST standsto the south-west of the scattered village of Aldenham.It is surrounded by a fair-sizedchurchyard (fn. 205)which is enteredthrough a modern lichgate onthe north, and two other gateson the west. The churchconsists of a chancel with northand south chapels and northvestry, a nave of four bayswith aisles and south...
The advowson of the church fromthe time of which we have any record of it belonged to the abbot andconvent of Westminster. The church was appropriated in 1391 by the abbot for the performanceof mass at the altar of St. John the Baptist in Westminster Abbey every year on the morrow of theTranslation of St. Swithun, on which day KingRichard II was cr...
—In 1599 Richard Platt, citizen andbrewer of London, erected, with alicence from Queen Elizabeth, a grammar school andalmshouses in this parish, which he conveyed tothe Corporation of the Brewers' Company, London,with certain lands and premises in St. Pancras, Middlesex, the rents and profits thereof to be applied forthe support of the said school ...
—This parish is in possession of amessuage known as the 'Chequers' public-house let at£40 a year, and three cottages let at £18 a year, anda sum of £215 6s. 10d. consols with the official trustees,arising from investment of part of the proceeds of asale in 1874 of allotment land formerly belonging tothe charity, the remainder having been applied in...
House & Family History: Wall Hall is a turreted and castellated house covered in cement that was built in 1802 for George Woodford Thelluson and originally called Aldenham Abbey.
Aldenham Abbey. WALL HALL, N of Edge Grove. Castellated, turreted, and cemented house of 1802 (then given the fancy name Aldenham Abbey) and c.1830. Some artificial ruins, an Ionic covered garden seat, and an icehouse in the grounds.
Wall Hall lies 2.5km west of Radlett and 3km north-east of the centre of Watford, on the northern edge of the village of Aldenham. The c 65ha site is bounded largely by agricultural land, and to the south-west by a golf course, part of which also occupies the majority of the parkland.
