HORMEAD (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred of EDWINSTREE, county of HERTFORD, 2 miles (E. byS.) from Buntingford, containing 112 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the jurisdiction of the Commissary of Essex and Herts, concurrently with the Consistorial Court of the Bishop of London, rated in the king's books at £10, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.