Flaunden, Hertfordshire

Description
Flaunden, a village and a parish in Herts, on the river Chess, at the boundary with Bucks, 4 miles SW from Box-moor station on the L. &N.W.R., 5 ENE of Amersham, and 5 NW of Rickmansworth, with a post office under Ches-ham (R.S.O.); money order office, Bovingdon; telegraph office, Latimer. Acreage, 919; population, 181. The living was consolidated in 1876 with the rectory of Latimer in Bucks. The united rectory is in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £220 with residence. Patron, Lord Chesham. The church was erected in 1838, and is a plain building of flint and brick, being one of the earliest, if not the very first, of Sir Gilbert Scott's churches. The old parish church, situated 1 1/4 mile nearer Latimer, has fallen into decay, the roof and E wall having both disappeared. There is a Baptist chapel.