Sandon, Hertfordshire

Description
Sandon, a village and a parish in Herts. The village stands 3 1/2 miles SSE of Ashwell station on the Hitchin and Cambridge branch of the G.N.R., and 4 SSW of Royston. It has a post office under Royston; money order and telegraph office, Therfield. The parish contains also the hamlets of Gannock, Green End, Lye End, Mill End, Sandon Bury Barn, Red Hill, and Roe Green, and comprises 4061 acres; population, 728. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £193 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of St Albans. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Later Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and an embattled western tower. It has a brass of 1480. There are Congregational chapels at Red Hill and Roe Green.