# King's Walden > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/King's_Walden > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/King's_Walden.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Walden > Source revision: 1356061533 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Civil parish in Hertfordshire, England Human settlement in England King's Walden Village Store, Plough Lane, King's Walden King's Walden Location within Hertfordshire Population 995 (Parish, 2021)[1] OS grid reference TL151220 Civil parish King's Walden District North Hertfordshire Shire county Hertfordshire Region East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town HITCHIN Postcode district SG4 Dialling code 01438 Police Hertfordshire Fire Hertfordshire Ambulance East of England UK Parliament Hitchin List of places UK England Hertfordshire 51°53′06″N 0°19′40″W / 51.885100°N 0.327719°W / 51.885100; -0.327719 **King's Walden** is a village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) in the [North Hertfordshire](/source/North_Hertfordshire) district, in the county of [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire), England. The parish contains several settlements, with the largest village being **Breachwood Green**. King's Walden itself is a non-nucleated settlement, with several small clusters of development, notably around the parish church, at Plough Lane (where the village shop and pub are located), and at **Ley Green**. In 2021 the parish had a population of 995. The parish also includes the [hamlets](/source/Hamlet_(place)) of **Darleyhall**, **Lye Hill**, **Wandon End**, **Wandon Green** and **Winch Hill**. At the south of the parish there is **Lawrence End** Park. The parish covers a large rural area lying south-west of the town of [Hitchin](/source/Hitchin), which serves as its [post town](/source/Post_town), and also adjoins the north-eastern edge of [Luton](/source/Luton). The end of the runway at [Luton Airport](/source/Luton_Airport) was in the parish until a boundary change in 1989 transferred that area to Luton.[2] ## King's Walden settlement The parish name is derived from the Old English '*walh denu',* which means a valley of [Britons](/source/Celtic_Britons). The name is used by both King's Walden and the neighbouring parish of [St Paul's Walden](/source/St_Paul's_Walden).[3] Walden was cited in a charter dated AD 888, when King [Æthelred of Mercia](/source/%C3%86thelred%2C_Lord_of_the_Mercians) granted land to a thegn, Wulfgar.[4] At the time, it was close to the border between English Mercia and the [Danelaw](/source/Danelaw). St Mary's Church, King's Walden In 1086, the community of *Waldenei* contained 53 households, which was large compared to other Domesday era settlements in the ancient [hundred](/source/Hundred_(county_division)) of Hitchin.[5] The community of King's Walden itself is a loose-knit dispersed settlement in a number of clusters, notably around the parish church and village hall in the south, around the village shop and pub (The Plough) on Plough Lane in the centre, and up to Ley Green in the north, all of which have King's Walden postal addresses. ## Breachwood Green Cottages on Chapel Road, Breachwood Green Breachwood Green is the largest settlement in the parish of King's Walden. Its built up area had an estimated population of 721 in 2022.[6] It lies 1 mile south-west of King's Walden itself. Breachwood Green has one pub, the Red Lion, which is owned by [Greene King](/source/Greene_King). The village has the only school in the parish, Breachwood Green JMI, which was built in 1859.[7] The Red Lion at Breachwood Green During the 1970s, there was a separate Post Office and Village Stores located in different parts of the village. The Post Office was originally located in Chapel Road next to the Red Lion. This moved a few hundred yards along the road north, near St Mary's Rise. It then moved again in the mid-1970s to the village store on retirement of the village postmistress. The Village Store closed during the 1990s and has become part of a neighbouring car showroom which was formerly the village petrol station. Breachwood Green Baptist Church The village also has a large Baptist chapel, built in 1904 in a free [Arts and Crafts](/source/Arts_and_Crafts_movement) style with [Perpendicular Gothic](/source/Perpendicular_Gothic) references.[8] [Converted windmill at Breachwood Green](/source/Breachwood_Green_Mill%2C_King's_Walden) To the north of the village is [Breachwood Green Mill](/source/Breachwood_Green_Mill%2C_King's_Walden), a partially restored windmill (without sails).[9] ## Darleyhall **Darleyhall** lies ½ mile west of Breachwood Green. ## Lye Hill **Lye Hill** lies ½ mile south of Breachwood Green. ## Wandon End **Wandon End** lies 1 mile west of Breachwood Green.[10] ## Wandon Green **Wandon Green** lies 1 mile south of Breachwood Green and includes Diamond End.[10] ## Winch Hill **Winch Hill** lies 1 mile south-west of Breachwood Green. It is made up of several houses and a derelict farm adjacent to Eastern perimeter of [London Luton Airport](/source/London_Luton_Airport); much of the land here is owned by the [Crown Estate](/source/Crown_Estate). ## Governance Breachwood Green Village Hall There are three tiers of local government covering King's Walden, at [parish](/source/Parish_council_(England)), [district](/source/Non-metropolitan_district), and [county](/source/Non-metropolitan_county) level: King's Walden Parish Council, North Hertfordshire District Council, and [Hertfordshire County Council](/source/Hertfordshire_County_Council).[11] The parish council meets at Breachwood Green Village Hall on Chapel Road.[12] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2021census_1-0)** ["2021 Census Parish Profiles"](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021_pp). *NOMIS*. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire (County Boundaries) Order 1989"](https://legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/284/made), *[legislation.gov.uk](/source/Legislation.gov.uk)*, [The National Archives](/source/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)), SI 1989/284, retrieved 25 May 2024 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Nottingham University. ["Key to English Place-names"](http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Hertfordshire/Kings%20Walden). *kepn.nottingham.ac.uk*. Retrieved 8 October 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Birch, Walter de Gray (1885). [*Cartularium saxonicum: a collection of charters relating to Anglo-Saxon history*](http://archive.org/details/cartulariumsaxo04bircgoog). Harvard University. London, Whiting & company (limited). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Open Domesday Online: King's Walden](http://opendomesday.org/place/TL1623/kings-walden/), accessed January 2018. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-bua_6-0)** ["Population estimates - small area (2021 based) by single year of age - England and Wales"](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/advanced.aspx). *NOMIS*. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 19 April 2025. To get data for individual built-up areas, query the 'Population Estimates / Projections' dataset, then the 'Small area (2021 based) by single year of age - England and Wales' and then choose '2022 built-up areas' for the geography. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Breachwood Green JMI - School History"](https://web.archive.org/web/20040806132252/http://www.breachwoodgreen.herts.sch.uk/school_history.htm). Archived from [the original](http://www.breachwoodgreen.herts.sch.uk/school_history.htm) on 6 August 2004. Retrieved 28 September 2008. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Historic England](/source/Historic_England). ["Breachwood Green Baptist Church (Grade II) (1347430)"](https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1347430?section=official-list-entry). *[National Heritage List for England](/source/National_Heritage_List_for_England)*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [Historic England](/source/Historic_England). ["Windmill about 230 metres to west of Roundabout Plantation (Grade II) (1347456)"](https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1347456?section=official-list-entry). *[National Heritage List for England](/source/National_Heritage_List_for_England)*. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ODOw_10-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ODOw_10-1) [Open Domesday Online: Wandon End and Wandon Green](http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/wandon-end-and-wandon-green/), accessed January 2018. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["Election Maps"](https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/). Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 1 May 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["King's Walden Parish Council"](https://kingswaldenparish.co.uk/kings-walden-parish-council/). Retrieved 4 May 2025. ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [King's Walden](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:King%27s_Walden). - [History of Breachwood Green in the parish of King's Walden](https://web.archive.org/web/20051001011413/http://www.aqzf75.dsl.pipex.com/history.htm) v t e Civil parishes in Hertfordshire Dacorum (partly parished) Aldbury Berkhamsted Bovingdon Chipperfield Flamstead Flaunden Great Gaddesden Kings Langley Little Gaddesden Markyate Nash Mills Nettleden with Potten End Northchurch Tring Tring Rural Wigginton East Hertfordshire (wholly parished) Albury Anstey Ardeley Aspenden Aston Bayford Bengeo Rural Benington Bishop's Stortford Bramfield Braughing Brent Pelham Brickendon Liberty Buckland and Chipping Buntingford Cottered Datchworth Eastwick Gilston Furneux Pelham Great Amwell Great Munden Hertford Hertford Heath Hertingfordbury High Wych Hormead Hunsdon Little Berkhamsted Little Hadham Little Munden Meesden Much Hadham Sacombe Sawbridgeworth Standon Stanstead Abbots Stanstead St Margarets Stapleford and Waterford Stocking Pelham Tewin Thorley Thundridge Walkern Ware Wareside Watton-at-Stone Westmill Widford Wyddial Hertsmere (partly parished) Aldenham Elstree and Borehamwood Hertsmere Meriden Shenley South Mimms and Ridge North Hertfordshire (partly parished) Ashwell Barkway Barley Bygrave Caldecote Clothall Codicote Graveley Great Ashby Hexton Hinxworth Holwell Ickleford Kelshall Kimpton King's Walden Knebworth Langley Lilley Newnham Nuthampstead Offley Pirton Preston Radwell Reed Royston Rushden Sandon St Ippolyts St Paul's Walden Therfield Wallington Weston Wymondley St Albans (partly parished) Colney Heath Harpenden Town Harpenden Rural London Colney Redbourn Sandridge St Michael St Stephen Wheathampstead Three Rivers (partly parished) Abbots Langley Batchworth Chorleywood Croxley Green Sarratt Watford Rural Welwyn Hatfield (partly parished) Ayot St Lawrence Ayot St Peter Essendon Hatfield North Mymms Northaw and Cuffley Welwyn Woolmer Green Wholly unparished boroughs Broxbourne Stevenage Watford See also List of places in Hertfordshire --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [King's Walden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Walden) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Walden?action=history)). 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