Ringshall, Berkhamsted

Ringshall is a hamlet in the Chiltern Hills of England. Parts of it lie in the parishes of Edlesborough and Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire, but it is now mainly in the parish of Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire. The postal address is "Ringshall, BERKHAMSTED".

"Ringshall" is one of four place-names in the parish of Edlesborough that have an origin with the suffix "healh"; the others being Dagnall, Hudnall and Northall. [A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton, "The Place-Names of Buckinghamshire", English Place-Name Society volume 2, 1925, pp.94-95.] Ringshall-Hall Farm is situated in the Edlesborough part, but the hamlet was always appendant to Ivinghoe. [G. Lipscomb, "History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham: Volume III", J. & W. Robins, 1847, p.402.] The Ivinghoe part of the hamlet was transferred to Little Gaddesden in 1895, [ [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10217179 Vision of Britain: Little Gaddesden Relationships] ] but some houses have since been built along Beacon Road in the area that remained as part of Ivinghoe parish.

References

Further reading

J. Leonhardt, "A Century Remembered: The Millennium Book for Little Gaddesden, Ringshall, Hudnall and Ashridge", Rural Heritage Society, 2002, ISBN 0-9542174-0-3.