RIDGE, a parish in the hundred of CASHIO, or
liberty of ST-ALBANS, county of HERTFORD, 3 miles
(N. W. by N.) from Chipping-Barnet, containing 390
inhabitants. The' living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of St. Albans, and diocese of London,
rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., and in the patronage
of the Earl of Hardwicke. The church, dedicated
to St. Margaret, is principally in the later style of
English architecture. The river Colne runs through the
parish.  Here was a religioxis house, formerly an appendage
to the abbey of St. Albans, but now a private re--
sidence.