Westmill, Hertfordshire

Description
Westmill, a parish, with a village, in Herts, on the river Rib, 1 1/2 mile S by E of Buntingford, and 8 miles S from Royston. It has a station on the Buntingford branch of the G.E.R., and a post office under Buntingford (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Buntingford. Acreage, 2670; population, 348. Coles Park is a good country mansion in the Elizabethan style, standing in a park of about 140 acres. Two Roman cups were found in 1728. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross value. £434 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Mexborough. The church is a plain building of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower with spire. It has some good stained windows, and some ancient memorials. Cherry Green, Wakeley, and Westmill Green are adjacent hamlets.