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The main local land-owning family, the Hanburys, left their mark on Thundridge village. At the 'new' church, a tomb by the gate is a sad indication of 19th-century infant mortality. Robert and Emily Hanbury buried five of their children in the churchyard between 1825 and 1834. Down the hill on old Ermine Street. You will see a long row of gabled brick cottages, built by the Hanburys for their estate workers between 1864 and 1901, and the village school built in 1894.