Monument record 0703700000 - Nash village

Conservation Area designated on 16th October 1991 and revised on 25th April 2007. See appraisal (B1).
Nash is first mentioned in legal documents in 1231, with later references in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries (B2).
Nash, a parish and village, formerly a hamlet included in Whaddon parish, was constituted a civil parish in 1896–9. It consists of 1,247 acres. The village is grouped along two roads which lead south from the road running east to west from Whaddon to Thornton, and unite near the church of All Saints. The upper part is called Town's End, and the road continues south past the hill with the burial-ground and Baptist chapel, erected in 1798, and past the chalybeate spring, Bretch Well, to the lower portion of the village known as Wood End. Behind the church are the graveyard and school; the rectory stands across the road. The south part of the parish is laid out in allotments, watered by a stream, which forms the boundary of the parish on all sides except towards the west. Barracks Farm stands on the western outskirts of the village, and Barshill Farm is on the north side of the road from Whaddon to Thornton. The church of All Saints, the foundation stone of which was laid in 1857, is a small stone building, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch, and bell-turret, erected from designs of the late G. E. Street (B3).
'Nash' is marked on OS maps from about 1813 onwards (B4).