WALDEN (KING'S), a parish in the hundred of
HITCHIN-and-PIRTON, county of HERTFORD, 4 miles
(S. S. W.) from Hitchin, containing 926 inhabitants.
The living is a donative, in the patronage of W. Hale,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. On the
north side of the chancel is a chapel, the burial-place
of the family of Hale, erected by William Hale, Esq.;
who died in 1648.