Gilston

Human settlement in England

Gilston

District

East Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

Region

East

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Hertford and Stortford

List of places: UK; England; Hertfordshire

51°47′23″N 0°05′58″E / 51.7896014°N 0.099346°E / 51.7896014; 0.099346

Gilston is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It is located a little over one mile north of the town of Harlow in the neighbouring county of Essex. Together with the nearby village of Eastwick, it forms the parish council of Eastwick and Gilston Parish Council. It is within the Hunsdon ward of East Hertfordshire District Council. At the 2001 Census, the population was 180,^[2] and 228 at the 2011 Census.^[1]

History

The name derives from Gedel or Gydel, an Old English personal name, and tun, meaning farm or settlement. A variation in spelling may be seen as "Gedeleston", in a legal record in 1424. ^[3]

The Parish Church of St Mary dates from the 13th century, and is Grade I listed. The churchyard includes a listed memorial to the Johnston family, and there is a 17th century tomb of the Gore family of Netherhall and an 18th century tomb of the Turvin family of Terlings Park in the church chancel. The Gore family included a Lord Mayor of London and the Gore and Turvin families both included a High Sheriff of Hertfordshire.^[4]

The Plume of Feathers Inn dates from the 18th century.^[5]

Gilston Park is a 19th century country house, which is Grade II* listed. It was designed by Philip Charles Hardwick in 1852 and extended by Arthur Blomfield in 1887, with later work by Blomfield's son, A C Blomfield.^[6] It was later home to the Salvin Bowlby family, who founded the Gilston and Eastwick Working Men's Club, now the village hall, in 1908.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
^ "Gilston". Luton Paranormal Society. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
^ the Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP40/654; image viewable at: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no654/aCP40no654fronts/IMG_0650.htm [ 5th entry ] with "Hertf" at the left as the county, and Mauricius Bruyn as plaintiff
^ ^a ^b "Parishes: Gilston Pages 319-323 A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 3". British History Online. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
^ "About us". Plume of Feathers. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
^ "Gilston Park". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 23 January 2024.