Flaunden is a village and a civil parish in

Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...

, England, close to the border with

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. Old Flaunden was on the banks of the

River Chess The River Chess is a chalk stream that rises near Chesham in the Chiltern Hills, and flows for through Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire to its confluence with the River Colne, Hertfordshire, River Colne in Rickmansworth. The Chess, along ...

in Buckinghamshire but owing to constant flooding, the settlement moved up the hill into Hertfordshire in the early 19th century. The new church at the top of the hill was built in 1838 and was the first church designed by Sir

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. The former Baptist chapel in Flaunden dates from 1836 and closed in 1985. It is now a private residence but the chapel's graveyard remains alongside. Flaunden has two pubs: The Bricklayers ArmsFlaunden's pubs
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building dating from the early 17th century which is on the

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File:The Green Dragon - geograph.org.uk - 1150743.jpg, The Green Dragon File:St Mary Magdalene, Flaunden, Herts - East end - geograph.org.uk - 348951.jpg, Church interior with east window File:St Mary Magdalene, Flaunden, Herts - Window - geograph.org.uk - 348954.jpg, Window in church

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Villages in Hertfordshire Dacorum Civil parishes in Hertfordshire {{Hertfordshire-geo-stub