Where is Hitchen?

[Erato]

I have spent hours trawling through Ancestry's BMD images trying to find a certain birth.  I found only one possibility - a birth registered in Hitchen.  Where is Hitchen?  I can't find it in the Gazeteer of British Place Names.

[Headbanger Veron]

It's in Hertfordshire. This link will take you to a map of it.

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=520000.17170987&Y=230000.034517154&width=500&height=300&gride=518091.17170987&gridn=229069.034517154&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=true&zm=0&scale=100000&out.x=6&out.y=8

Veron (sorry about the long link!)

[Erato]

Thanks for the map.  I had already located this town (Hitchin) but the birth record I am referring to clearly said Hitchen (with an e").  Maybe it was misspelled in the register.

[Headbanger Veron]

That has to be it. I don't know any other Hitchin or Hitchen! (and certainly not one which was used as a registration district)!

Cheers Veron

[Keith Bateman]

I think you will find as Veron says that they are both the same place -
IGI usually spells it with an "e" - PRO and later maps with the "i"

Cheers

Keith

[Meliora]

Yes, Hitchin is in the north of Hertfordshire & is the only Hitchin listed in the Civil Registration indexes, the volumn number is 3a..

Meliora