AYOTT (ST-PETER), a parish in the hundred of BROADWATER, county of HERTFORD, ij mile (w. by S.) from Welwyn, containing 233 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7.8.65., and in the .patronage of the Earl of Hardwicke. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, a neat octagonal building, was erected about eighty years ago, by the late rector, Dr. Freeman, who built also the steeple, on the opposite side of the churchyard.