Layston
Layston is a former village and parish located about a kilometre north-east of Buntingford in Hertfordshire, at 51°57′50″N 0°00′45″E.
Its former church, St Bartholomew's, became derelict but is the subject of a restoration project. People connected with the church include:
- Thomas Crouch, who was baptised in St Bartholomew's in 1607
- Robert Wogdon (January 1734 – 28 March 1813), founder of the gunsmith firm Wogdon & Barton, who was buried in the chancel with his wife, who had died in 1805
- Rev. Jonathan Gilder and Mary Brazier, who were married there in 1759; their daughter Sarah, baptised there in 1767, became (posthumously) the maternal grandmother to New Zealand suffragette Catherine Fulton
- Claud Lovat Fraser (15 May 1890 – 18 June 1921), who was buried in the churchyard.
There is a state-funded primary school, Layston First CE School.
External links
- Layston Church website - history and restoration
- Church family history index
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