Ickleford
[From Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831.]
ICKLEFORD, a parish in the hundred of HITCHIN and PIRTON, county of HERTFORD, 1¾ mile (N.) from Hitchin, containing 442 inhabitants. The living is a rectory with the vicarage of Pirton, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8. C. Peers, Esq. was patron in 1773. The church is dedicated to St. Catherine. A fair is held on the 2nd of August. The village is situated on the line of the ancient Iknield-street.