I was so pushed for time, that rather naughtily I added my discovery of Epping Green, Herts, to the end of a post concerning Colchester's hospitals and asylums (in the best sense of the word), then afterwards found that Epping House, Herts, had been used until recently as a boarding school for emotionally and behaviourally disturbed children and young people. The topics were not quite so far apart after all.:-) Peter JFHH wrote 4/11/08 > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Spring" <spring@surfbvi.com> >> Lawrence >> > I asked the Clerk to Little Berkhamsted and Hertingfordbury Parish >> Councils if there was any historic connection between his Epping Green >> and the Eppings a few mile away in Essex, but he knows of none. >> > Peter > Has anyone tried the VCH [Victoria county History] of Herts? > It should be online at British History Online - it is: > http://www.british-history.ac.uk/catalogue.aspx?type=1&gid=16 > but sadly > http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43638&strquery=epping#n3 > > has nothing more than this: > Epping Green, a hamlet, lies 1 mile south of the village, and another > hamlet, Howe Green (probably Le Hoo of the 15th century), lies a mile > to the north. Epping House, to the west of Epping Green, was the > property of William Horne, attorney-general, who died in 1860. It now > belongs to Mr. B. H. Henderson. (fn. 3) > and > A house was licensed as a Presbyterian meetingplace in Little > Berkhampstead in 1672, and one at Epping Green was certified as a > place of worship for Protestant Dissenters in 1810. (fn. 53) > > From: 'Parishes: Little Berkhampstead', A History of the County of > Hertford: volume 3 (1912), pp. 427-430. URL: > http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43638&strquery=epping. > Date accessed: 04 November 2008. > > From: 'Parishes: Little Berkhampstead', A History of the County of > Hertford: volume 3 (1912), pp. 427-430. URL: > http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43638&strquery=epping. > Date accessed: 04 November 2008. > ------- > Google maps shows both Epping Green Herts, just south of Little > Berkhamstead, and Epping Green, Epping, Essex. > > regards > John Henley >> -------- Original Message --------> Subject: Re: [Ess] [MDX] Asylum >> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:01:02 -0400> From: Spring <spring@surfbvi.com> >> [snip] >> > Re. "Place name in Herts.", Lawrence: squinting over my copy of the >> 1842 edition of Moule's map > of >> Hertfordshire revealed a village south of Little Berkhampstead (sic) >> called Epping Green, >> containing Epping House, and a google located it as just "10.6m" from >> Epping. >> www.ukvillages.co.uk/village/epping%20green-hertfordshire >> > Peter Moll> Tortola, BVI