GILSTONE, a parish in the hundred of BRAUGHIN, county of HERTFORD, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Sawbridgeworth, containing 213 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £ 10. 3. 4., and in the patronage of the Bishop of London. The church has a quadrangular western tower, embattled and surmounted by a spire. There are an endowed almshouse, and a trifling rent-charge towards the support of a school for girls.