# St Ippolyts > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/St_Ippolyts > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/St_Ippolyts.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ippolyts > Source revision: 1323966897 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Village in Hertfordshire, England Human settlement in England St Ippolyts St Ippolyts village sign St Ippolyts Location within Hertfordshire Population 2,077 (Parish, 2021)[1] OS grid reference TL197270 Civil parish St Ippolyts District North Hertfordshire Shire county Hertfordshire Region East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town Hitchin Postcode district SG4 Dialling code 01462 Police Hertfordshire Fire Hertfordshire Ambulance East of England UK Parliament Hitchin List of places UK England Hertfordshire 51°55′44″N 0°15′29″W / 51.929°N 0.258°W / 51.929; -0.258 **St Ippolyts** (historically **St Ippollitts**) is a village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) on the southern edge of [Hitchin](/source/Hitchin) in the [North Hertfordshire](/source/North_Hertfordshire) district, in the county of [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire), England. As well as the village itself, the parish includes the hamlet of [Gosmore](/source/Gosmore) and southern parts of the Hitchin built up area, alongside rural areas particularly to the south of the village. The parish had a population of 2,076 at the [2021 census](/source/2021_United_Kingdom_census). ## Toponymy The name of St Ippolyts, although spelled in a variety of ways, is derived from [St Hippolytus](/source/Hippolytus_of_Rome) to whom the village church was dedicated. Variant spellings which have been recorded include Epolites, Ippolitts, Pallets, Nipples or St Ibbs.[2][a] The name of the parish was officially changed from St Ippollitts to St Ippolyts with effect from 2 October 1996.[3] Even in the 21st Century, road signs to the village on consecutive junctions on the nearby A602 show contradictory spellings of the village name. ## History St Ippolyts historically formed part of the [ancient parish](/source/Ancient_parish) of Hitchin. A church dedicated to St Hippolytus was built around 1087 as a [chapel of ease](/source/Chapel_of_ease) for the southern part of Hitchin parish, and subsequently gave its name to the small village around it.[4] St Ippolyts became a separate parish from Hitchin in the middle ages.[5] Some features of the village are a 17th-century gabled house, a timber-framed house formerly known as the Olive Branch Inn, and a 16th-century house built around an even older timbered house. ### St Ippolyts Church St Ippolyts Church The church was built in 1087 in a hilltop position.[4] According to the church records, the building was funded by grants supplied by [Judith de Lens](/source/Judith_of_Lens), the niece of [William the Conqueror](/source/William_the_Conqueror). De Lens gave evidence against her husband [Waltheof](/source/Waltheof%2C_Earl_of_Northumbria), a [Saxon](/source/Anglo-Saxons) Earl, which led to his execution. The funding of the church was an attempt to make amends for this act. The church was rebuilt in the mid nineteenth century using old materials 'recycled' from the nearby abandoned [Minsden Chapel](/source/Minsden_Chapel). Apart from St Ippolyts, the church also serves the nearby villages of Gosmore and Langley. The noted theologian [Fenton John Anthony Hort](/source/Fenton_John_Anthony_Hort) (Fenton Hort) is amongst the former vicars of St Ippolyts church where he stayed for 15 years before taking up a fellowship and lectureship at [Emmanuel College](/source/Emmanuel_College%2C_Cambridge) in Cambridge. Politician [George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd](/source/George_Lloyd%2C_1st_Baron_Lloyd) (1879–1941) was buried in the churchyard,[6] as is [Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane](/source/Geoffrey_Lane%2C_Baron_Lane) (1918-2005), former [Lord Chief Justice of England](/source/Lord_Chief_Justice_of_England). ## Geography St Ippolyts is located in between the [A602](/source/A602_road) ([Stevenage](/source/Stevenage) Road) and the B656 ([Codicote](/source/Codicote) Road), 2 km (1.2 mi) south-east of Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It lies approximately 80 m (260 ft) above [sea level](/source/Sea_level) in a gap in the [Chiltern Hills](/source/Chiltern_Hills). Village shop, Waterdell Lane The parish includes the village of St Ippolyts and the adjoining hamlet of Gosmore, and also includes southern parts of the Hitchin built up area.[7] There is a village shop at Waterdell Lane. Wymondley grid substation is in the parish, south of the A602, but takes its name from the neighbouring parish of [Wymondley](/source/Wymondley). The substation covers 78 acres, and eventually cost £7.5m, built by Howard Farrow Construction. ### Almshoe The ancient manor of Almshoe, mentioned in the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book), is located in the south of the parish.[8][9] Almshoe Bury—now a farmhouse and wedding venue—is a grade I listed building.[10] ## Governance St Ippolyts Parish Hall, Waterdell Lane There are three tiers of local government covering St Ippolyts, at [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish), [district](/source/Non-metropolitan_district) and [county](/source/Non-metropolitan_county) level: St Ippolyts Parish Council, [North Hertfordshire District Council](/source/North_Hertfordshire_District_Council), and [Hertfordshire County Council](/source/Hertfordshire_County_Council). The parish council meets at the Parish Hall on Waterdell Lane.[11] For national elections, the parish forms part of the [Hitchin constituency](/source/Hitchin_(UK_Parliament_constituency)).[7] ## Nearby towns and villages - [Gosmore](/source/Gosmore) - [Great Wymondley](/source/Great_Wymondley) - Hitchin - [Kings Walden](/source/Kings_Walden) - [Little Wymondley](/source/Little_Wymondley) - [Preston](/source/Preston%2C_Hertfordshire) - Stevenage ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** In the same vein, the 1881 census mentions the following 28 place names, all of which are believed to refer to it: Iplits, Ipolits, Ipollitts, Ipollyts, Ipolytes, Ipolyts, Ippatyts, Ipplits, Ipployts, Ipplyts, Ippolett, Ippoletts, Ippolits, Ippolitss, Ippolits, Ippolitss, Ippolitts, Ippollit, Ippollits, Ippollitts, Ippollyts, Ippollytts, Ippololits, Ippolts, Ippolytis, Ippolyts, Ippolytts, Ippoplitts. 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)** Rance, Daphne (1987). *St Ippolyts: A country parish in the nineteenth century*. Egon Publishers. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-905858-38-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-905858-38-7). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [*Bulletin of Changes of Local Authority Status, Names and Areas*](https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20221201175650mp_/https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/11379/bulltein-of-changes-1994-1997.pdf) (PDF). Department of the Environment. 1997. p. 10. Retrieved 24 February 2025. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NHLE_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NHLE_5-1) [Historic England](/source/Historic_England). ["Church of St Ippolyts (Grade I) (1347411)"](https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1347411?section=official-list-entry). *[National Heritage List for England](/source/National_Heritage_List_for_England)*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Page, William (1912). [*A History of the County of Hertford, Volume 3*](https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol3/pp3-12#h3-0003). London: British History Online. pp. 3–12. Retrieved 31 October 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-odnb_7-0)** *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 34*. Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 127. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-electionmaps_8-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-electionmaps_8-1) ["Election Maps"](https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/). Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 24 February 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["Parishes: Ippollitts | British History Online"](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol3/pp25-28). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Almshoe \[Bury\] and \[Little\] Almshoe | Domesday Book"](http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/almshoe-bury-and-little-almshoe/). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["Almshoe Bury, St Ippolyts, Hertfordshire"](https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101102513-almshoe-bury-st-ippolyts). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["St Ippolyts Parish Council"](http://www.stippolyts-parishcouncil.org.uk/). Retrieved 24 February 2025. ## Further reading - Rance, Daphne (1987). *St. Ippolyts: a country parish in the nineteenth century*. Egon Publishers Ltd. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-905858-38-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-905858-38-7). - Rance, Daphne (1996). *The Yeomen of Ippolyts*. Cortney Publications. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-904378-48-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-904378-48-9). ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [St Ippolyts](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St_Ippolyts). - [St Ippolyts Church web site](http://www.stippolytschurch.org.uk/) 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 [St Ippolyts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ippolyts) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ippolyts?action=history)). 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