LONDON-COLNEY, a chapelry in the parishes of
ST-PETER and ST-ALBANS, hundred of CASHIO, or liberty
of ST-ALBANS, county of HERTFORD, 3 miles (S.E.)
from St. Albans. This place derives its name from its
situation on the road to London, which crosses the river
Colne here, over which there is a substantial brick
bridge of seven arches. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry of St. Albans, and diocese of London.
The chapel is a neat modern edifice, dedicated-to
St. Peter, erected for the use of the inhabitants of the
parishes of St. Peter, Shenley, and Ridge, by subscrip-
tion amounting to £2700, including a grant of £400
from the parliamentary commissioners for the erection
of churches; it contains about seven hundred sittings,1
one-half of which are free. The site was given by. the
Earl of Hardwicke, who at the same time settled £40
per annum towards the support of the minister.