Cromer Hyde (1½ mile S. from Ayot Station, G.N.R.) consists of a farmhouse, the Chequer’s Inn, and a few old and picturesque cottages. The nearest church is ½ mile S.E. at the corner of Brocket Hall Park.
Croxley Green (¾ mile N.E. from Rickmansworth) is an ecclesiastical parish near the river Chess. The church, built fifty years ago, is late E.E. in style and has some good memorial windows.
Cuffley is a small hamlet about midway between Cheshunt and Potter’s Bar (Middlesex) Stations, but a little N. from the straight line. The Church of St. James at Goff’s Oak ([q.v.]) is 1 mile E.
Cumberlow Green is 4 miles N.W. from Buntingford.
Currants Bottom, on the Bucks border, is close to Chorley Wood Station, Met.R.
Dane End, or Munden Street, is 4 miles S.W. from Standon Station, G.E.R. The nearest church (½ mile N.) is at Little Munden.
Dane End, 4 miles S. from Royston, is close to the Old North Road. There are a few cottages and two farms.
Dassells is a hamlet on the Old North Road, 1 mile E. from Westmill Station, G.E.R. The little river Quin flows close by.
Datchworth (1½ mile S.E. from Knebworth Station, G.N.R.) has a church with some Norman portions. Its spire is conspicuous for miles round. The larger portion is, however, Dec. Note (1) some good stained glass windows in chancel; (2) chalice dated 1630. The church was restored in 1869-70. The place is very ancient; we read that four hides of land at Decewyrth were granted by an early Saxon king to the Monastery of St. Peter at Westminster, and that in the reign of Edward III. Thomas de la Mere, Abbot of St. Albans, transferred the patronage of this church to the king.
Dean End (¾ mile S. from Redbourn Station, M.R.) is a small hamlet.