HUNSDON, a parish in the hundred of BRAUGHIN,
county of HERTFORD, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Sawbridgeworth,
containing 584 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of
London, rated in the king's books at £ 12. N. Calvert,
Esq. was patron in 1777. The church has a chapel
attached on the south side, belonging to the family of
Gary, Barons Hunsdon, and at the west end an embattled
tower surmounted by a spire. The parish is
bounded on the south by the river Stort, which separates
it from Essex.