Gilston
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| Population | 777 (Parish, 2021)[1] |
| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] TL 448 121] |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HARLOW |
| Postcode district | CM20 |
| Dialling code | 01279 |
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| Police | Hertfordshire |
| Fire | Hertfordshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
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Gilston is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the centre of Harlow, its post town, which lies over the county boundary in Essex. The River Stort forms the southern boundary of the parish and is also the county boundary. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 777.
It shares a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parish of Eastwick.[2]
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]
In 2017, the government designated the "Harlow and Gilston Garden Town" as an initiative to provide new housing in the area around Harlow, including on land north of the River Stort around Gilston. Planning permission for 10,000 homes and supporting infrastructure in the Gilston area was granted in 2025.[7]
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 January 2026. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Home page". Eastwick & Gilston Parish Council. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
- ^ 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 Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Parishes: Gilston Pages 319-323 A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 3". British History Online. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About us". Plume of Feathers. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gilston Park". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brown, Ellie (22 September 2025). "Work to start on landlord's 8,500 'garden town' after legal challenge thrown out". Inside Housing. Retrieved 27 December 2025.
External links
- Gilston (A Guide to Old Hertfordshire)
- History of Gilston in East Hertfordshire | Map and description
- UK & Ireland Genealogy - Gilston
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