Sarratt, Hertfordshire

Description
Sarratt, a parish, with a village, in Herts, on the river Chess, 4 1/2 miles NNW of Rickmansworth, and 2 1/2 from Chorley Wood station on the Metropolitan Extension railway. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Rickmansworth (R.S.O.) Acreage, 1540; population, 704. There is a parish council consisting of six members. Goldington, Sarratt Hall, Great Sarratt Hall, and Maiden Lodge are chief residences. The making of fancy trimming is carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £222. The church is an ancient cruciform building of flint with massive walls, of Late Norman date, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, aisles, S porch, and a low, square, saddle-back tower containing three bells, the oldest of which is dated 1606. The pulpit is of oak of the time of James I. The church was restored by Sir G. Gilbert Scott in 1866, and was then found to include some Roman bricks. The churchyard also was found to contain portions of Roman cinerary urns and a Roman fibula. There are a Baptist chapel, six almshouses, and some small charities.