Great Munden, Hertfordshire

Description
Munden, Great, a parish in Herts, 2 1/2 miles W by S of Braughing station on the Bnntingford branch of the G.E.R., and 6 1/2 N of Ware. It contains the hamlet of Munden Fumival and parts of the hamlets of Dane End and Haultwick, and its post town is Ware; money order and telegraph office, Puckeridge. Acreage, 3759; population of the civil parish, 476; of the ecclesiastical, 439. There is a parish council consisting of five members with a chairman. Eowne£ Nunnery was founded here in the time of Henry II. by the Duke of Brittany, but went to extinction before the time of Henry VI. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £400 with residence. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church, an ancient building of flint, is partly Norman but mainly Decorated English, with some interpolated windows of Later English; went into a ruinous condition; was restored, throughout the body, in 1866; and consists of chancel, nave, S aisle, and S porch, with an embattled western tower.