Description
Layston, a parish in Herts, three-quarters of a mile E of Buntingford station on the G.E.R. It was known at Domes-day as Ichetone, it had a village which for some time was a market-town, and it now contains part of the town of Buntingford. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Buntingford. Acreage, 1434; population of the civil parish, 889; of the ecclesiastical, 1091. Layston House and Cor-ney Bury are chief residences. The manor belongs to the Butt family. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Buntingford, in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £167. The church is a building of flint in the Early English and Perpendicular styles.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
