About Flamstead
Flamstead could be the only village made famous for its annual Scarecrow Festival. The annual event, This event started in 2002 as a means of raising money for the upkeep of the village church and the Hertfordshire Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre. The festival has gone from strength to strength. Every year so far there have been over 90 scarecrows on display and many people now look forward to the annual event. More than 5000 people have visited the village event each year. The scarecrows will be on display and voting forms will be available from mid day on Friday. Voting closes on Sunday at 5pm. In addition to the scarecrows there will be lots of other things to see and do. The village pubs, The Spotted Dog, The Rose and Crown and The Three Blackbirds as well as the Sports and Social club will be open over the weekend selling a range of meals and snacks as well as drinks, including a selection of real ales.
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There are many other buildings of importance within the parish, chief of which must be the mansion at Beechwood. Today it is a preparatory school, but the first recorded building on the site was the little nunnery of St Giles-in-the-Wood, founded about 1120 and dissolved by Henry VIII in 1537. Also of considerable interest are the Almshouses opposite the Three Blackbirds, which are dated 1669 and the Three Blackbirds pub itself, the western wing of which is sixteenth century.
In 1298, the last of the line, Robert, was granted permission to hold a market in Flamstead every Thursday and a fair for five days annually at the Feast of St Leonard which shows that at that time it was considered to be a place of some importance. The Church of St Leonard is the focal point of the village and considered by many to be a very a beautiful old building. Precise dating is impossible because it developed in stages, but in general terms it can be said that there was a place of worship on the site in Saxon times, that the earliest part of the present structure, the tower, dates from 1140 and that there can be found in the Church a list of parish priests dating back to 1223. There is a lot to see and admire both inside and outside St Leonards and visitors are particularly recommended to note the Medieval wall paintings and the Saunders Memorial of 1670.