HORMEAD (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
EDWINSTREE, county of HERTFORD, 2 miles (E.) from
Buntingford, containing 564 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex,
and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at
£6. 3. 9., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in
the patronage of the Master and Fellows of St. John's
College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St.
Nicholas.