Nettleden / Netledon / Netteleyden / Netylden / Notleden

No entry for Nettleden found in the Domesday survey. Sheahan (1862) includes Nettleden in Buckinghamshire: "It occupies an extreme point of Buckinghamshire, and is surrounded on three sides by Hertfordshire [...] The Church (St. Lawrence) is a neat edifice, built before 1470 [...] and nearly rebuilt in 1811 [...] the font is modern and small". The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908): "As there is no mention of the church or chapel of Nettleden in the taxation of churches under Pope Nicholas in 1291 it is probable that it was built after this date. In 1381 it is mentioned as annexed to the church of Pitstone […] originally a chapelry in the parish of Pylesthorne or Pitstone in Buckinghamshire, but was formed into a parish in 1895 from parts of the parishes of Ivinghoe and Pitstone, and at the same time transferred from the county of Buckinghamshire to that of Hertfordshire"; the VCH (ibid.) notes the modern church, "having been almost wholly rebuilt in brick by John earl of Bridgewater in 1811 [...] The small octagonal font is also modern." [NB: we have no information on the font of the previous church; the earliest register for baptisms, burials, and marriages here starts in 1784, more than a hundred years before Nettleden was set as a separate parish].