ASPEDEN, a parish in the hundred of EDWINSTREE,
county of HERTFORD, f of a mile (S.) from
Buntingford, containing 455 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £15- 5.2g.,
and in the patronage of the Earl of Hardwicke. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. The river Rib, which
falls into the Lea near Hertford, flows through this parish.
W. and R. Freeman, in 1668, and Mrs. Cater, in
1704, gave land for the education of children; and RFreeman
assigned an additional plot of land for clothing
them. In 1684, Dr. Seth Ward, Bishop of Sarum,
founded an almshouse for two men and two women,
and endowed it with £41. 12. per annum.