In 1267–8 and 1268–9 John son of John de Titburst conveyed to Adam de Stratton, clerk, various pieces of land in Titburst in He(a)rtfordshire. In 1291–2 John Tailboys of Titburst released to Walter abbot of Westminster all his right of common pasture in the woods of the abbot at Aldenham Frith and elsewhere; thus the obligation to Westminster, incurred to Abbot Laurence, must have ceased. In 1303 John held a quarter and a fortieth part of a knight's fee in Titburst of Emericus de St. Edmund, who held of John Wake, who was a tenant of the abbot of St. Albans. ORGAN or ORGAR HALL, one in the tithing of Titburst, parcel of the manor of Wheathampstead, which was held in 1311 by Alice Magot, and in 1388 by Thomas Edmund. The church of ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST stands to the south-west of the scattered village of Aldenham. The church was appropriated in 1391 by the abbot for the performance of mass at the altar of St. John the Baptist in Westminster Abbey every yeare on the morrow of the Translation of St. Swithun, on which day King Richard II was crowned, for the healthful estate of the king and Queen Anne while they lived, and for their souls after their death. This appropriation was confirmed by the bishop of Lincoln on 2 November, 1391, in obedience to the king's desire.
In 1397 Abbot William Colchester assigned the church of Aldenham to the prior and convent of the monastery of Westminster, on condition that they provided both the due celebration of mass on the morrow of St. Swithun's Day, and the celebration of the obit of the abbot. Abbot William, in 1399, assigned to the perpetual vicar of Aldenham a house with a hall, chambers, bottlery, kitchen, bakehouse, and garden. The keeper of the Church House of Aldenham paid rent to the abbot in the fifteenth century, and in 1620 the Church House and two other houses called the 'Kitchine House and the Clerkes House,' built upon a parcel of ground adjoining the churchyard of Aldenham, were granted to Sir Henry Carey in exchange for the land called Priest's Heath. Sir Humphrey Coningsby bequeathed rents from lands called Brooks, Edmonds, Staffords, and Scotts, in Aldenham, for finding a priest who should say divine service in the chapel of our Lady for twenty-one years from the day of his death, which occurred on 5 June, 1535 and built a chapel at Cobden Hill and 'to purchase easements' from the Roman Curia. In the yeare of 1577-8 also it was annexed to the duchy of Lancaster.
In 1361 Sir Thomas de Holand earl of Kent died seised of this manor, which he held of the earl of Hereford in right of his wife. Joan, who married secondly Edward the Black Prince, died in 1385, and was succeeded by her son Thomas Holand, who died in 1397, seised of this manor, leaving Thomas his son and heir. Thomas, third earl of Kent, was beheaded and attainted, but notwithstanding the attainder, Edmund his brother succeeded to the title and some of the estates in 1400. The manor of BUSHEY, however, was assigned to Alice widow of the attainted Thomas. Alice died in 1416, when this manor fell to the share of Eleanor, wife of Thomas earl of Salisbury, as one of the sisters of the said Thomas and Edmund, earls of Kent. Thomas, who died in 1428, and Eleanor his wife, earl and countess of Salisbury, had an only daughter Alice, whose husband, Richard Nevill, became, in right of his wife, earl of Salisbury. The manor was divided into three tithings, namely, Great Bushey, Little Bushey, and Leavesden in the parish of Watford with several fishery of the Colne.
Most topographical names are compounds consisting of an initial adjectival element and then a topographic element. Adjectival elements include personal names, colors, types of soil, position, location or condition, the names of trees, wild plants or crops, and wild and domestic animals and birds. The topographic element in the name could be a natural feature of the landscape such as a hill, valley or plain, a type of country such as marsh, wood or moorland, a body of water such as a river, stream, pool or sea, small portions of land defined by the landscape or a humancreated or used element such as a barrow or ford. Examples of topographic names are not hard to find. Topographic names containing a personal name include Edgmond (Shropshire) "hill of a man called Ecgmund."