Aspenden or Aspeden, a parish and a village in Herts, on the river Rib, I mile W of Buntingford station on the G.E.R. It includes part of the post town of Buntingford, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1711; population of the civil parish, 658 ; of the ecclesiastical, 408. Aspenden Hall, the seat of the Lushington family, and its park is a prominent feature. Aspenden Lodge is also a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £408. Patron, the Earl of Mex-borough. The church contains a curious monument to Sir Robert Clifford, master of the ordnance to Henry VII., and other tombs and brasses, and is in good condition.
