Aldbury, Hertfordshire - The Greyhound pub - art postcard c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  The Greyhound, Aldbury, Hertfordshire - artist M. Balcomb
• Publisher:  The Greyhound / Aldbury Artworks, Aldbury, c.1980s
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Aldbury (pron.: /'??ldb?ri/) is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, near the borders of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the Bulbourne valley close to Ashridge Park. The nearest town is Tring; Tring railway station, 1 mile west, is in the parish of Aldbury. Uphill in the narrow vale are the Bridgewater monument and the Ashridge estate.

Aldbury has around 800 inhabitants, a small shop, garage, and two public houses: The Valiant Trooper and the Greyhound. A troop of morris men is based here and perform seasonally on weekends outside both.

Aldbury is a village retaining several archetypal historic features. In the centre is a green and pond; close by stand stocks and whipping-post, in excellent preservation, a primary school and the Church of Saint John the Baptist. In the days of Edward the Confessor the single manor (recorded as Aldeberie in the 1086 Domesday Book) was held by Alwin, the king’s thegn. The Valiant Trooper has served as an alehouse for several centuries, the first traceable evidence dates back to 1752.^[1] The ascent of the wooded slope towards the Bridgewater Monument is one of the most steep ascents crowned by a ridge with one of the five highest elevations in Hertfordshire.^[2] Monuments in the church prove and witness the importance of certain manorial families including the family of Sir Ralph Verney, 1546, who has the northern Verney chapel in the church and the similarly landed family of Thomas Hyde, 1570, and George his son 1580.^[1]

Through most of the Norman period the manor was held in honour (with part rent due to) Berkhamsted manor. In the time of Edward the Confessor Aldbury Manor was held by Alwin, a thegn of the king and by 1086 was in the hands of Robert, Count of Mortain. Various lower nobles followed until held in the 1530s under a Dynham family trust by a wife of William Fitzwilliam (Sheriff of London) and shares created became acquired by John Hyde of Hyde, Dorset who was an officer of the Court of Exchequer who had a lease of the manor and died in 1545. Sir Nicholas Sandys who died in 1625 briefly held the manor. In 1665 Sir Thomas Hyde, whose family had held the main manor for more than 100 years, died leaving only Bridget, his daughter with the estate, who married Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds, whose family held the estate until Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds sold it to Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, after further subdivision the remaining manor descended to Francis Henry, ninth and last earl of Bridgewater, whose widow held it for life, and at her death it passed to John Hume Cust, Viscount Alford, son of the first Earl Brownlow, and from him to the Earl as of 1908. A few of the court rolls of the manor were at the

Sir Henry de Bohun was killed viscerally by the Scottish King on the first day of the Battle of Bannockburn, by Robert the Bruce, however may not be the same man who in 1277–8 made the men of la Stok come to his view of frankpledge at Agmondesham in Buckinghamshire. After a historical gap, references are noted from the 17th century to establish an epitome of title involving Duncombe, Hayton, Gordon and Whitbread descendants. James Adam Gordon was a friend of Sir Walter Scott and it is reputed in 1908 that the poet visited his friend at Stocks. His widow afterwards married Richard Bright (politician), who died at Stocks in 1878, she in 1891, and left the estate to Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, as descendant of Samuel Whitbread. He shortly afterwards sold the house, as all that remained, to Thomas Humphry Ward, whose wife, an Australian née Mary Augusta Arnold, niece of Matthew Arnold, pen-name Mrs Humphry Ward was a more well-known novelist than he was^[1] — her book Lady Rose's Daughter was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1903, as was The Marriage of William Ashe in 1905.^[3]

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