WORMLEY, a parish in the hundred of HERTFORD, and county
of HERTFORD, 2 miles (NbyB.) from Cheshunt, containing
492 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
jurisdiction of the Archdeacon of Middlesex, concurrently
with the Consistorial Court of the Bishop of London/
rated in the king's books at £10. 32. %, and in
the patronage of Sir A. Hume, Bart. The church, dedicated
to St. Lawrence, has a Norman doorway and
at the west end, a square wooden tower; it contains
sevS tSets, altar-tombs, and other sepulchrd
mortals. The New River runs through tfce parish, and
the river Lea bounds it on the east.