SHENLEY, a parish in the hundred of DACORUM,
county of HERTFORD, 6 miles (N. W.) from Chipping-
Barnet, containing 1132 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 16. 8.1. The
Rev. T. Newcome was patron in 1801. The church,
dedicated to St. Botolph, is built with flints, and has a
wooden tower on the south side. A chapel is supposed
to have formerly stood on a moated site in the park
belonging to the house called Colney Chapel.