WIDFORD, (Hertfordshire) on the little r. Ash, on the S.W. side of Sabridgeworth, and 1 m. N. from Hunsdon, near the road
to Ware, once bel. to the Bp. of London, then to the monks of Bermondsey; but at the Diss. Hen. VIII. gave it to Sir Rich.
Southwell and his heirs, from whom it came to Robert Adams, but was afterwards sold to Rowland Backhouse, ald. of London,
the grandfather of William Backhouse, whom Charles II. created a Bt. who sold it to Tho. Byrd of Mardocks, who died and
left it to Mrs. Perry. In this p. upon a hill a little to the W. of the r. are 2 barrows which give that name to the house
and estate they bel. to, and are supposed to have been thrown up by the Danes, in memory of some action here.